Why not go all the way with the Malzahar revert?
If the changed go through then basically Malzahar is more like his former self but a far more one-dimensional and generally speaking worse champ.
- His passive shield his toxic and unnecesary during lanephase. You should focus on farming with E and voidlings instead of putting yourself in danger. Whenever his passive is strong he bullies everyone out of the lane like old Yorick used to do and whenever his passive is weak like now it is useless.
- His passive shield is useless especially with the new
. Every APC can get his passive now without any tradeoffs because it also gives AP now. With the current banshee there is absolutely no reason to keep his stupid and much hated passive. - His old passive envolved a minigame for voidling and lane pressure management. It required a lot more skill and was 100x more fun. Also stacking your passive to spawn voidlings to dodge skillshots was the most satisfying and skillful thing you could do which he lost now.
- AD Malzahar and jungle Malzahar was a thing without crowding out his AP build. It made him very diverse as a champ and it was niche, fun and balanced.
- His old W was his bread and butter. It made Malzahar not being a stunbot. It made him scale from a 1 vs 1 champ into an anti-tank peel mage during the mid-lategame where his dualing power would diminish due to people grouping and QSS. Most of his damage came from his pool and it was also a good zoning tool and made him a real threat in teamfights.
- During mid-lategame you DON'T want him to depend on voidlings aka the AI do be meaningful. As a mage you want to play spells and make meaningful choices yourself rather than pressing W and hoping for the best.
- He was one of the few mages who were good vs tanks and juggernauts. That alone made him unique and a valuable pick.
- He lost AA range, base movement speed, base armor. Will that get reverted as well?
Old Malzahar could be played in a lot of different ways without any build crowding out the other. They all coexisted in harmony. AD Malz, jungle Malz, Assasin Malz, Tankmelter Malz all had their place in the game and made him a very unique and diverse champ. Please just fully revert him.
or any other defensive item. And honestly most of the times I would't even get Rabadon. Too much gold and unnecesary to do your job as a tankmelter/peeling mage in the backline.