Malzahar nerf plz?

Tekno Gaming·7/27/2015, 7:36:13 PM·1 votes·1,075 views

Don't understand how this is fair, but Malz has a Silence, a DoT that will go to another target after killing someone, an AoE that has a huge area, and a suppression that does way too much damage, percent max health damage, and each scales way too much, paired with relatively low cooldowns on said abilities. His Q scales with 80% of AP and silences, his W does a huge AoE % max health damage that scales with 1% per 100 AP, his E jumps from target to target, allowing him to clear waves and get a second, more powerful ignite essentially. And his ult. His f**king ult. I main AP Assassins, which means Malz has absolutely no counterplay against them. Which is stupid. If we could get something like a QSS for Ability Power champs, this would help immensely with Malz. Anything would help, as long as he is somehow nerfed.

8 Comments

Serevas7/27/2015, 7:41:04 PM2 votes

You realize of course that Malz is basically only lethal in lane, when it goes to teamfighting, you stay away from the giant circle on the ground and he does virtually no damage.

I do however get your frustration on the suppression in lane, if he locks you down on that circle with his ult you're basically dead, granted he's then useless afterwards, which is why he's not that much of a threat later in the game. An AP QSS item would be delightful though, something similar to Abyssal Scepter would be perfect.

LoLKiru7/27/2015, 7:41:23 PM2 votes

"and each scales way too much"

Malzahar is a lategame APC, sort of the reason he scales as hard as he does.

OT: Use the fact that he pushes lane by just doing ANYTHING to your advantage; especially because he WILL run out of mana if he doesn't use his E, if you arn't ganking him at that point, then its your fault he gets farmed up and or fed kills.

Do NOT try to fight him alone, you will lose (I'm not sure why people even try to fight a duelist; its like trying to 1v1 Vayne lategame and then wondering why she obliterates you). Malz is pretty terrible at anything that isn't a 1v1.

Contrary to what people think, his teamfighting is pretty good; mostly because of his Q (while his W is strong, its generally only effective if he can lock you down in it, or if he has liandries + rylai's to chunk you from even touching it)

CreationFlaw7/27/2015, 7:42:42 PM2 votes

So uh. Don't try to 1v1 Malz.

7ha7guy7777/27/2015, 7:59:07 PM2 votes

Low cooldowns... All of his level 1 cooldowns are 9/14/15 seconds respectively (8.55, 13.3, 14.25 with cdr masteries) and only his E gets a shorter cooldown at higher ranks (6.65 with 5% cdr)

Malz is supposed to counter assassins. That's kind of his thing. He's the anti-assassin mage/assassin that no one refers to as an assassin because he has 0 mobility

JimmyNtheKudos7/27/2015, 8:04:33 PM1 votes

He's been OP since forever, but since he doesn't fit the meta and has a very low play rate he's flown under the radar.