Started some point in season 3, kinda fuzzy on when exactly. Learning the game was not really fun but stuck with it because i loved the characters in all their glory. Also playing with a friend really helped( the person who introduced me to LoL). After jumping from champ to champ trying to find the right one for me i found Malzahar, who i proceeded love very dearly. I played him in the majority of my game, with a few others here and there that were fun in some ways but never as good as Malz. I played a lot during this time. Then came the horrible scourge on LoL, the much dreaded but hoped would be good, MYMU. I went into that hopeful that they would keep the fun parts, and if they had to prune something they would remove his ult and put something new in. I could stand that. What I got instead was a gutted mess with so much focus on his minions ( F.W.I. I didnt play him for some minionmance appeal but for his E and his W and Q in lesser extent. Wont go into all the details on why i liked what i liked unless asked) that his spells felt like crap to use, and his laning felt like it relied so hard on how smart or how bad your opponent was. Were they good and killed the minions fast? Then you felt useless. Were they bad and left them alive, then "they" did so much damage that it was ridiculous.
When these dark times were here, i left LoL for the most part, just coming back for a odd game here or there to see if i could find another champ i could love as much as I loved Malz. I never had any luck with this. Then, one day when checking the patch notes to see if they had done anything interesting, i saw some potential light! Malz, the spell caster part of him received some love. I was hopeful, but once burned you do not forget it, so i checked it out with a hope of better things. All can say is with the experience, Malz feels back to me, not as much of a minionmancer( though its still there, just not as prevalent.) but as a spell slinging mage, slowly destroying minds, not with elemental damage, but with visions so horrible that their minds can not handle it! I have been happily playing malz again! Though i like other champs, as long as malz is the fun exciting champ he is, i will be around.
