Talk:Malzahar/@comment-22964237-20130924022249/@comment-8468980-20131007034221

"actually he trades well in lane for 1 reason, abd one reason only, to deny Malz farm, the enemy champ has to allow malephic visions to jump to them,"

Or they can pump out better burst and CC and zone him out to point of famine. Common champs that can do this are Annie, Leblanc, Brand, and Lux. Will they hard counter Malz 100% of the time, of course not but they have a very easy time doing it.

"but lae game in team fights he is kind of bad, like, really bad. "

He excels at killing bruisers, tanks, overzealous assasins, and other melee champs in team fights. Few AP or AD carries are going to give you the free chance to tag them with ulti safely so many people simply assume he's awful in team fights. This isn't really the case, you just need to swap targets or resign yourself to holding on to ulti till the perfect opportunity.