In game: Malz shield has a delay of protection making it stronger than banshee's vale. https://youtu.be/fNFk3pNyiq8
In this video you can see the root go through malz and knock his shield down. then the plant hit him... the plant is a lasher and it applies a slow, but malz is still immune to the ability. if he was slowed that additional bit than he would not have received the kill in which he walked away freely with.
Sahn Uzal2 votesMalzahars passive stays for one second after his passive procs.
Have a Nice Game2 votesThe shield is there to ensure at least 1 second of cc on the enemy via ult
which is kinda stupid
because any competent Malz main (For old Malz) would hold off on their ult and just using a QE and maybe W rotation until they absolutely had to ult someone to win the fight
only exceptions were if you could insta kill someone and wanted to ensure all your skills hit them or if you had to protect someone from a diving assassin.
So all in all, the shield's purpose is to draw in new players (and to slap mains in the face by mocking them with a positioning forgiving shield)
Kei1431 votesI wished they coded it so it would act like banshees.
When I'm trying to pop and initiate on Malz, I am careful with my skill timings to not make him immune to another skill. Sometimes I screw it up and loose 1 CC or dmg on him.
Especially when I'm a ranged champ doing an AA+Skill on him.
Teslyn1 votes/replay to all
well thats just silly that he has that full delay after the passive proc
Void Nargacuga1 votesThe shield is surprisingly very fragile more so then 
's passive and way more fragile then 
's shield, there are many ways to break it without using your major source of damage or crowd control. Like auto attacking him and waiting one second, or auto attacking the nearby jungle camp so it targets him instead. The persistence is only one second though, after that though it has to wait until he is out of combat with any source of damage/cc that could pop his passive for X amount of time depending on his level. Here is the passive information taken from his wikia page:
Void Shift: Malzahar receives Void Shift if he hasn't taken damage nor been affected by crowd control in the last 30 / 18 / 10 / 6 seconds (levels 1, 6, 11, 16). Damage from minions does not interact with Void Shift.
Void Shift phases out Malzahar, making him immune to crowd control and taking 90% reduced damage, lingering for 1 second after taking damage or blocking a crowd control effect.
Additional information: Void Shift will not mitigate true damage but the buff will be still consumed.
Arakadia1 votesAgainst melee's without range its cancer tbh.