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Built to Tylt·12/2/2017, 5:30:27 AM·3 votes·1,231 views

I honestly don't understand it anymore. It's not fun, nothing makes sense, and never before has there been such a sense of imbalance between champions base and scaling stats. I honestly don't know how to play this anymore. I've given it a good hundred or so games with new runes and I don't get it.

I thought I was getting it and having picked like ONE champ (Malzahar) in which to test it I find that he seems to be WEAK AS FUCK. Others seem to do way more damage than I am doing at any stage of the game, with exception of extremely late game + potion. People cry he's OP, but I'm struggling to kill people even with fully offensive runes. I cast 3 spells and am nearly oom. There is no way to really generate mana anymore and I really feel like everything I play is severely fucked over (Except Lux). Maybe a lot of that comes from the runes but it's honestly really frustrating and I just hate this 'game'. Mages don't scale identically and I feel like mana cost/pool is extremely high for Malz. I'm experimenting with builds now but it really sucks, to be honest.

There are problems (with my account at least) on how AP and in-game EXP is applied. I really wish Riot would get on that, but they seem to be ignoring the support tickets.

It made it seem like new runes would make the game more adaptive and flexible but that's not how it is at all. Champions are just absurdly overpowered or pretty much ineffectual. Games are over at 15-20 because of being so one-sided it's easier to just FF than waste time trying to come back. Losing turrets because of one death and at 5:00 is super awesome. Nothing demoralizes faster than that shit, let me tell you.

I don't understand any thing any more.

6 Comments

LetYourSleepWane12/2/2017, 5:56:54 AM4 votes

Malzahar is currently the strongest mid laner in the game at every ELO bracket. He was even used in the finals at Worlds. You just need to understand how to play him better and pressure the map. Even in preseason right now, he is statistically the best scoring mid laner in Plat+ by nearly a whole percent (which is actually a lot).

In the hands of a good player, he's anything but weak and he doesn't have any atrocious matchups either. His passive and the mana restore on E combined with his strong waveclear make him a good laner and fairly forgiving. It's not the champion. You probably understand so little about what's going on that you don't even notice the mistakes or missed opportunities in your games. If you were playing AP Kog mid or something, maybe you could blame the champion.

Żügżwäng12/2/2017, 5:58:34 AM2 votes

He's trolling guys. Not even low elo players would say Malz is weak in his current state.

Existential Bard12/2/2017, 5:58:47 AM1 votes

I think you may be maxing the wrong ability first. Max E, then W, then Q. Time your E and focus your basic attacks on the minion that has the E. Your voidlings will focus on the target with E on it. When your E kills minions or champions you get mana back.

Take aery keystone.

Rush Morello and lucidity boots.

TickleMeElmo14/10/2018, 4:48:18 PM1 votes

I hate this game