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Malzahar isn't fun to play anymore. I cannot get kills with him and everytime I get jumped on I die.

SuperNova0079·7/27/2018, 6:46:02 AM·8 votes·2,825 views

Isn't fun. People with guaranteed gap closers kill me every time. I have his battle boss skin which is the only reason i play him. To look cool. But then I stop playing him because I would get humiliated for having the skin with death over and over. Nothing I can do can stop a diving champ. My voidlings die in one hit which isn't fun to watch or play with. they need ap health scaling similar to mist walkers health ad scaling.

What needs to change is that Voidlings should be on a 1 second cool down and remove the gathering swarm mechanic. Every time you spawn voidling it refreshes the duration of all active voidlings. You can have a max of 10 voidlings. Bring back the haste towards targets with malefic visions on them. but don't make them multiply.

I need help being effective with or he needs buffs.

Also his ult sucks. only delays the inevitable. It also is worse then other ultimates that have shorter cooldowns and are much better.

That is all I have to say.

27 Comments

Astorine7/27/2018, 10:50:17 AM4 votes

His ult is still disgusting, but his voidlings are legit useless. They are so slow, so fragile, and honestly don't do amazing damage.

Leto GT7/27/2018, 3:10:44 PM3 votes

Maybe because you play him wrong.

The only champion I'm struggling against are assassins - in the laning phase. His win rate has gone up heavily this patch** (54% in midlane and 59% in botlane last time I checked)** . I see him being banned more often everyday. Reason is that he will delete all current cancer bruisers - aatrox, darius, Irelia for example.

Very important thing is that Malza always required great positioning. You need to play cautious, as much as other immobile control mages. If you want to faceroll, just forget malzahar or any champion in the same role.

I've personally have had huge success with him this patch. Even when I play against Platinum or diamond players. You need to play around his passive and dont fool yourself by his apparent simple kit. He does have weakness but he scales very hard and he's very rewarding when played properly. Take in account that he's team reliant but excel early-mid in 2vs2 (not 1vs1).with 3+ items, you can one-shot pretty much anybody. He could be better, but he's not thrash and most probably underestimated.

Voidlings can be spammed to solo drake, tank baron and even take turrets (if you don't e the minions ofc). They can be used to block skillshots, added to your passive, it's quite something. Assuming they run into a skillshot based champion... he can't land anything. I personally prefered the old iteration of malza but you can find really interesting ways to use your voidlings. If you think it twice, they're kinda OP because it means that no one gets the damage debuff from baron, no one takes damage from drake//baron or melt turrets down.

Now, Malza is a immobile control mage. So like any other champion in this situation, you're vulnerable to divers. But that's not malza specific amirite?

Besides you played litteraly two games with malzahar this season....

Highwiseene7/27/2018, 1:34:01 PM2 votes

As much as I like him, malz isn't healthy for the game. He has a super safe laning phase against mages, and he has a point and click suppress who just beats everyone when he's meta. He needs a gameplay update.

Killer of Night97/27/2018, 9:59:06 AM2 votes

I loved playing malzahar but atm he become a clear wawe champ and then afk for the rest of the game. His only job is waiting your jungler to just press R. I hate him now, I can't win my lane by my own. Anivia does the same job (clear bot wawe) but feel more satisfying than him since she has damage and at the same time she feel to do thing (hit the Q and the W). I wanted to fell that I can win my own lane again aline rather than just wait other or gank bot to give a free kill.

Baval7/27/2018, 1:43:42 PM1 votes

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What needs to change is that Voidlings should be on a 1 second cool down and remove the gathering swarm mechanic. Every time you spawn voidling it refreshes the duration of all active voidlings. You can have a max of 10 voidlings. Bring back the haste towards targets with malefic visions on them. but don't make them multiply.

You want him to have 10 minions constantly?

As much as I personally would like a character like that, how exactly is that in any way healthy for the game? And where does it leave Yorrik?

Warlord Rhinark7/27/2018, 1:53:40 PM1 votes

This is not to say that the moment the enemy buys item 3140 you're literally useless for the rest of the game.

Napoleon37/27/2018, 6:27:05 PM1 votes

after the rework malzahar is totally 0

Napoleon37/27/2018, 6:27:29 PM1 votes

after rework malzahar is totally 0

Tahminatrix 7/27/2018, 6:54:26 AM1 votes

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they need ap health scaling similar to mist walkers health ad scaling.

They will get oneshot anyway....trust me.....

Pika Fox7/27/2018, 6:34:09 PM1 votes

I played him and poppy when they just got reworked and could jungle. It was great fun. Now they cant and i just dont care for them anymore.

Even7/27/2018, 8:40:29 AM1 votes

Riot forgot about how fun the champion is when designing Malzahar. He isn't really that weak just extremely boring.

DW Diana7/27/2018, 9:51:28 AM1 votes

Riot have steadily crushed malzahar over the last 2 years. He was designed to counter those people that are wrecking you but no longer can. He needs work to put it simply.

Is he unplayable? No. Is he weak? Yes.

Jinzo Torrance7/27/2018, 11:40:03 AM1 votes

That he isn't that fun to play anymore I agree since all your damage is now locked behind 4 seconds E resets and R, but he isn't that weak, he's in a good spot right now given the meta of dumbassassins.