Malzahar should ignore unit collision with his own Voidlings

Ant·10/12/2015, 9:49:47 PM·169 votes·4,380 views

It doesn't happen very often, but when it does it confuses and irritates me. I'll have a voidling out, then go to hide around a corner to try to ambush/wait out an enemy. When I decide to leave from my hiding spot, I suddenly cannot move and for a second there, I think I'm disconnected. Then I realize I have to move away from the way I want to go in order to walk around my voidling, who has literally just brick walled me and made it impossible for me to path back to where I wanted to go.

Considering Malzahar is the creator of these voidlings, and the fact that they're uncontrollable, Malzahar should really not be having issues with being unit blocked by his own creation. And sure, unit blocking is true for other pets like Shaco/LeBlanc clone, Tibbers and the like - but those pets are actually controllable. But I also don't think he should be able to control the Voidlings manually, considering the uniqueness in Malz's kit. The entire point is that he can't control the voidlings with commands, but can do so with his skills and autos. From my personal experience, I feel ignoring unit collision is the best solution here.

I really feel this is a needed change for Malzahar in order to keep his movement steady, especially considering that he moves slow and is extremely immobile. Thank you. Malzahar

My thread on Reddit (for added exposure in hopes a Rioter will notice): https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3orexe/malzahar_should_ignore_unit_collision_with_his/

61 Comments

Dar Raksada10/12/2015, 10:21:36 PM25 votes

I don't see why he shouldn't get this.

thePandev10/13/2015, 1:36:25 AM13 votes

Unit collision in general is sometimes just cancerous. I've actually died top lane because I got stuck on a wall of about 12 caster minions and had to walk around, wasting a good 3 seconds and dying to a 2v1 with the jungler.

Even pathing could use a bit of work. Too many stories to even explain the problem with that.

IndianHippie10/13/2015, 3:44:34 AM2 votes

Bumping...Riot should focus on this, its not much

JShayde10/13/2015, 4:34:54 AM2 votes

Especially with how crucial they are to his gameplay. A good Malz will use them to block Skillshots and then proceed to engage when the Skill was blocked. Say that skill was a Morg Binding, now you're trying to walk towards the Morg but have to dodge your minion. I agree.

Rydakora10/13/2015, 8:00:16 AM2 votes

Instead of giving Malzahar ability to ignore unit collision, what if it was on his voidlings? Malzahar is slow since he is medium / long range mage who doesn't normally fight inside minion waves thus leading full time unit collision going waste. Nice to have but not really needed.

If the voidlings were able to move through units, it would prevent future issues where other champions would get void-blocked. This change would help lane farming aswell. Sometimes the voidling gets blocked by lane creeps leading the voidling shuffling around to look the best route for target.

SociopathFriend10/13/2015, 2:32:29 AM2 votes

Yeah, I had something bad happen once with voidling pathing, you get the normal ones and then you just get a really annoying one.

I was mid and shoving my lane after forcing my enemy out. I saw the enemy jungler going bot and immediately clicked on our tower to start heading down there through our jungle. Having full vision of the enemy team by this point, I wasn't even watching myself and was instead keeping watch on the battle. About 10 seconds passed before I realized I still wasn't there and neither had I been attacked- I pressed space to see what the problem was.

My voidling has turned sideways right next to the raptor camp and solidly blocked me from leaving my lane to go through the jungle; I'd spent 10 seconds clicking on that tower and not moving an inch.

PeachsProperty10/13/2015, 8:11:37 AM2 votes

personally...he floats..he should ignore ALL collision v_v

Jakbob10/13/2015, 10:00:22 AM2 votes

Now that I think of it, yeah. This should totally be a thing.

Dehorn10/13/2015, 11:05:53 AM2 votes

why does malz collide with anything? hes flying... how do you trip when your FLYING?!

Monkey D Luffy10/13/2015, 4:29:59 PM1 votes

Malz doesn't need buffs, qol or not i don't wanna see buffs to this broken hunk of junk

khorney10/13/2015, 12:36:16 AM1 votes

you can control his voidlings somethign about casting his e. and who cares unless your going ad his voidlings to me arent really important

magic pole10/15/2015, 6:35:51 AM1 votes

I've seen what happened with morde

please DO NOT reference malzahar on these boards

My Waifu Vanilla10/13/2015, 8:13:52 AM1 votes

I just wish they didn't mindlessly follow malz at Mach 7 because I played the Zilean VS Malz match up and I killed him twice all game by just throwing bombs on the voiding and watch as it gives it to its master like a cat with a dead bird. Did I feel bad about it? Hell no it was hilarious to watch but it definitely should be addressed. Also voidlings are bad at throwing surprise birthday bashes in bushes.