Malzahar Passive

I think Malzahar's passive still needs some changing. I might be wrong, I often am anyway, but I don't think Malzahar has a timing animation for his passive. I often find myself kiting people and disengaging in team fights once I have Rylais. When doing that the enemy team will often cast abilities that are nullified by the passive because it activates during the flight time of the ability. I actually had a game that may have been decided by the spell shield becoming active while Malphite was travelling to knock me up. It really wasn't that fun for either one of us. I felt like I was just lucky and so did he. I didn't really feel like much skill went into us winning that fight.

Maybe there is a slight animation hinting at the timing for the passive. If there is, I would argue it's too subtle. If there isn't one, I would recommend adding one. Secondarily I would recommend changing the passive to be based on some number of casts. That gives the player the chance to control when the spell shield is active. I understand the reason the developers probably want the spell shield on Malzahar is that they don't want him to be easily knocked out of his ult all the time. It gives some consistency to the ult and makes Quicksilver Sash more necessary. That said, you can reach that goal by making the Spellshield activate after 3 or 4 casts.