Malzahar TU

Hige··7 votes·4,047 views

I'm surprised no one has talked about this yet. Malzahar has a Texture update on the PBE and in all honesty he looks a bit off

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PPgl197lITk/VxagOJp8fbI/AAAAAAAAN0g/IjhKH0k4sEEHa_4_ETmeViUPZ2yy-F_AgCLcB/s1600/malzcompare.jpg

Here's his current model, as you can see, his hood has been changed to look like he has the three eye thing from his voidlings going on, I think that's pretty cool but it looks a lot different than his splash art, where you can clearly see his face (or eye) and the three eyes actually being a hole in his hood covering a mysterious glowy thing.

Also, his skin is more corpsy now, that's cool though, Malzahar seems to have pretty big guns that kind of slip through too much with this skin tone, I think a bit less purplish would look better and talking about purple...

His passive covers him in purple, which looks nice but it happens in all his skins, so in the end, all the skins looks purple and a bit too close to his classic one.

TL;DR: His hood currently looks like he has diamonds attached to it instead of it being three holes. His skin goes by unnoticed. His passive homogenizes all his skins.

Splash art for reference: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B86WOfVvnp4/VxZ6GKAKkfI/AAAAAAAA58U/qfVCtcy0GE4Ow0Ft1huFYGwSM0rnbW9zwCLcB/s1600/Malzahar_Splash_0.jpg

16 Comments

Shac Norris3 votes

Malzahar is now black. SURPRISE Malzahar mains!

Hige2 votes

He always had this arabian tone so him being not white kinda makes sense... being purple though... I guess the void corrupts more than your mind.

Shac Norris2 votes

I don't mind him not being white, but they just changed the color of his skin on a visual update... like comon man xD.

If you would take Lucian and make him white tomorrow morning, you would have hordes of offended people with torches and forks in here..

Mannysmoker1 votes

He needs a Gangplank level Visual update..

Hige2 votes

I think they'll get too him at some point too... but it'll take a loooooong time before that happens, I mean they changed a whole splash art for this, still, investing a bit of resources in making his hood look right will make him more in tune with his new splash art and less people would notice the disparity.

J Epstein1 votes

Can anybody confirm that his passive isn't purple on snow day malz? Pictures?

Mannysmoker1 votes

Is blue, or snow like color..

J Epstein1 votes

Thanks. Op said all skins so I was worried.

Mannysmoker1 votes

NP

Elite4Runner1 votes

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Thanks. Op said all skins so I was worried.

Yeah, I found this odd because I actually can't find any gameplay footage on YouTube of anything but his default skin.

Hige1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYy4oC5hSRU here you can look at all his skins. Snow day malz has lavender colored passive in order to keep it on the blue side with a tint of purple.

Elite4Runner3 votes

Perfect, thank you! I use Overlord anyways, so I don't mind if it is purple, but I do think it is weird that the non-purple colors, aside from snow day, don't have an appropriate color change.

Shadow Prince should be gold Vizier should be red

GreenLore1 votes

I think making an actual hole in his hood with an eye beneath it would require too much work(at least in regards to what they wanna do with the mage rework).

After all this is just a small texture change that only applies to his base skin,they don't want to spent much resources on updating his model.

Hige1 votes

yeah actually making the model do the holes is crazy workload but modifying the texture itself to look hollow is actually pretty simple, sideways it might look a bit weird and fake though, so I don't know.

Sukishoo1 votes

I think it makes him look closer to the splash but there are things off with it. Plus I miss the designs he had on his clothing, without those he looks kind of plain.

Hige1 votes

edit: wrong answer hahaha

Yeah he looks a bit plain now :S but simpler... less is more?

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