Does Riot think it's ok that they turned Malz into a support?

Liofa·1/22/2017, 6:07:06 PM·2 votes·687 views

I'm genuinely curious. The rework of the rework heavily nerfed not only mid malz's ability to push but his ability to do sustained damage in teamfights inexchange for a lowered mana cost, charge system and increase in early game burst (or a general trend towards burst rather than dps) on the much clunkier voidlings which really is only a buff if you wanted to support with malz, and that's exactly what people are doing.

Now I'm not going to pretend malz's first rework was good, cause it wasn't, but at the bare minimum malz had a niche in being a late game mage that played sort of like an adc with a swarm mechanic which was half baked at best but unique and had potential.

What is he now? A stun bot. A stun bot that can block some skillshots and has some generic early game burst if you're melee.

[zombie-brand-clap]

3 Comments

TyrekGoldenspear1/22/2017, 6:10:31 PM1 votes

Probably not.

I'll bet he'll get a mini rework like Shyv and alistar.

Out of curiosity, do you think he should have the bulk of his power in spells or voidlings?

BastionKross1/22/2017, 6:20:52 PM1 votes

Yeah, I'm not quite sure Riot knew what they were doing with him. Look at that passive. How can you be allowed to have a decent kit with a passive like that? You just can't.

It would seem they tried to balance it out with having the majority of Malz's damage come from a source he has no direct control over: his voidlings. They're not like Tibbers in that you can command them to go attack a certain target. You have to put E on that target and hope the voidlings respond to that in a timely manner. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they get bad pathing and the AI goes into panic mode. It's very inconsistent, especially when there's a bunch of units all squashed together.

When you have a good game as Malz, a lot of times you feel less like you're skilled at the champion and more like you only performed well because you were able to manipulate your voidlings into behaving themselves well that game.

lightdragoon881/28/2017, 4:52:11 AM1 votes

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