I've reworked Malzahar's *W* for you Riot!

Wukong Airlines··8 votes·645 views

W (Blood Portal) or whatever better name anyone could suggest:- Malzahar puts his Dagger into use and sacrifices % of his HP and creates a zone of negative energy at the target location for 5 seconds, dealing magic damage every second to all enemies standing on it and summons a voidling every 1.5 seconds. Cooldown: 28 seconds.

R (Nether Grasp) : the same old ult with flat magic damage but still reduced from MAGIC DAMAGE PER HALF SECOND: 50 / 80 / 110 (+ 26% AP) 」to 40/70/100 (+20% AP).

You see, thematically and gameplay wise, his old nullzone looked like a portal that deals damage, so why not turn it into an actual portal that deals less damage that his previous W and still summon voidlings in that specific location instead of spamming them wherever at will. I believe this will create better counterplay since the voidlings locations of summoning are obvious.

6 Comments

Ben Sharpio2 votes

....What? Can we just let malz rot in the dumpster for a little bit and appreciate the fact that riot's balance team didn't let him destroy solo queue for a year before doing anything about it.

420 grams1 votes

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....What? Can we just let malz rot in the dumpster for a little bit and appreciate the fact that riot's balance team didn't let him destroy solo queue for a year before doing anything about it.

He was only good for a short time as support. He worked as a mid laner for a little bit, but after his initial rework he was nerfed multiple times so he couldn't be great mid or jungle effectively.

Lucifer1 votes

A short time? It's been a season and a half.

Danjeng1 votes

Malzahar was oppressive to play against when he was FotM. It's better to have one champion weak, than having one champion shitting on everything that comes within range. I'll admit that they went a bit far with the nerfs. I haven't seen many Malzahars lately.

The balancing team has a habit of ignoring Flavor of the Month picks for... well about a month. Then they finally pick up on the fact that a few champions are destroying everybody else, and nerf those champions. Then they nerf those champions again a few patches later. Then when those champions have already fallen into obscurity and aren't really an issue at all, they nerf them again!

Asayake 5150glow1 votes

Oh wow first reading this by hovering over it I thought this was a joke post, I saw 'Dagger' and 'sacrifices HP' and I thought this was mocking the Kata reworks and Ivern's passive.

deadlychuck1 votes

You see, you made a mistake here. You can't make changes to the rest of his kit. The only aspects which they are willing to change are his base stats (atk range, move spd) and his W.

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