Talk:Malzahar/@comment-23923487-20160518185143/@comment-28991477-20160710230027

As a person who spent most of his time with both kassadin and malzahar, two ridiculously overpowered champions in the past, I can say I like this rework, makes his kit a lot more dynamic and opens up far more possibilities of "plays".

I don't understand why you're ranting, Malzahar used to be like Blitzcrank. A one-trick pony that never does much outside his pre-designed role to delete a single person and push lanes. Now he has strong objective control, he's far less susceptible to ganks thanks to the new passive (if you say malzahar isn't easily ganked, you've never played above Silver, rengo eats your face), also he's more efficient at shredding tanks now, though at the cost of his flat ult damage which is better against low-hp targets, making his midlaning a lot less shitty to deal with.

Also I don't know if you're aware, but in this year, where nearly every new champion has some form of knockup, stun, knockback etc., someone merely sneezing at malzahar would interrupt his grasp. What does riot do to prevent it? Give him a passive that stops that shit. Sure it can die from a single basic attack, but if the enemy has to spend time to attack you once, wait a second for your shield to drop and then cc you, they already lost the fight. Not counting the times where people already blew their stuff and I just casually walk in and melt their adc/mage.

New Malza is a godsend, it's the Malzahar I was waiting on since Riot started reworking en masse. He's exactly a summoner type that doesn't rely on bullshit like casting spells to have a voidling, I don't know how you consider that good, I never felt old voidlings doing much other than helping me push and being turret tanks. I already deal mindblowing amounts of damage, and the voidling's is hardly noticeable. Once or twice I've seen their potential but it's squandered by the fact that they're shortlived, fragile and they rely on the enrage to do real damage, and that enrage was timed. New lings can spawn in a large group and their rage is pretty easy to come by if you're hitting the right targets with them. Also having that many voidlings means you can actually be a fucking jungler now, not some piss-poor, half-assed attempt. Dragon at level 4? No problem. Even level 3. Herald at level 5? If you have proper runes for this, it's not too difficult.

I can talk for hours on why the new Malzahar is so good, but seeing as fewer people read here these days, might just stop here to give people who ask themselves a proper answer to the question of is new malza better: Yes, he is. Far better. He's not the same, and you will feel weird if you're accustomed to the old one, but I promise you this version is a lot more versatile and harder to fall behind with.