Malzahar Rework Wish

Elite4Runner··2 votes·403 views

I believe I understand exactly why Riot feels that Malzahar needs some attention. It is my belief that the goal for what makes this champion unique is meant to be his voidlings. The problem with the current Malzahar kit in my opinion is that his voidlings are not really the focus of his strength. What I mean is that if he is built as an AP caster a large majority of his damage comes from his abilities, and his voidlings are more of a distraction, or subsequent damage. Currently, the only way to actually make his voidlings strong is to go for an AD/armor pen build while managing your mana/CDR enough to summon your voidlings as often as possible. While I personally really enjoy this build on Malz, I don't think this was Riot's intent on how he should be played.

I personally would really like to see his kit change completely in order to focus more around building to strengthen his voidlings, and/or by using his voidlings in conjunction with his abilities, they deal increased damage/ apply a greater effects (debuffs).

I definitely have other ideas, but I wanted to keep this post simple. Please give me your thoughts. I'm really hoping to hear more information soon.

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Ýones1 votes

I would make his E a skillshot. I would make his ult a skillshot. I would give his passive a third hit proc with a reload mechanic. And his basic attacks would be skillshots.

Elite4Runner1 votes

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I would make his E a skillshot. I would make his ult a skillshot. I would give his passive a third hit proc with a reload mechanic. And his basic attacks would be skillshots.

Okay, I definitely understand how making his point-and-click abilities into skill shots would be understandable, but I think Riot has already expressed the fact that making everything into a skill shot is not what they are after. They even made a specific mention to leaving Malzahar with a point-and-click ability and I believe they were specifically referring to how they like his E. Actually, the fact that his E is currently a single target point-and-click ability makes it more difficult for him to prepare his current passive while out of combat because it can't be cast without a target.

I don't understand what you mean by making his passive a third hit proc. I am sure you are referring to how many champions have an empowered third attack like Aatrox Gnar Vayne XinZhao , to name a few, but what do you propose that it would do? Currently his passive summons a voidling. Do you think that his third hit of an auto attack should summon a voidling? That seems a little odd as he is a mage, so it's not likely that auto attacking will really be a priority for him. Maybe his third spell to deal damage to an enemy/monster unit. That is a slight buff for when he is in combat as he would be able to summon voidlings more often, but also be a nerf, preventing him from using abilities while out of combat to prepare a summon. I honestly have no idea what you mean by reload mechanic, but I'm guessing that is because I don't understand this whole sentence. No offense, I would really ask that you explain.

I have thought a lot about creating a champion with a skill shot as a basic attack. The problem with this is the way that basic attacks work with existing champions. Basic attacks, are also referred to as auto attacks, because the champion will often automatically attack (mind blown) when this setting is toggled in the options menu and enemies are near by, or when a movement command is given to a space that is currently occupied by a targetable enemy or structure. Skill shots are always toggled active abilities that trigger a mechanic to direct the next action to occur at or in the direction of the next command location. The issue comes down to how the game will determine if the player is wanting to issue a movement command or to target that location with a skill shot. As I said, I have thought about this. The simplest solution would be to assign a targeting action to Ctrl + R-click. While this may work, this kinda sounds like a lot of unnecessary trouble to implement, especially for a reworked champion. New champion, maybe.

Ýones1 votes

I told a joke, and you make an essay about it kappa xd. I think his ult and E could stay point and click, but that third-hit proc was just a joke.

Elite4Runner1 votes

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I told a joke, and you make an essay about it kappa xd. I think his ult and E could stay point and click, but that third-hit proc was just a joke.

LOL okay, I was honestly thinking that you were joking, but I thought maybe you actually had some interesting idea that made absolutely zero sense to me haha. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

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