Talk:Malzahar/@comment-10198490-20130807092313/@comment-8468980-20130919081709

"I always thought that mobility based assassins were his bane."

Kass and Leb yes; Kat, Zed, Talon, and Akali not so much. Adding strong silence and ambiguous blinks (as opposed to Akali, Talon, Kat style where you know the blink destination) tends to tip in the assassin's favor.

"If that's not the case, you are helping the skill with autos or whatever. In that case, you are setting what any jungler calls "free gold incoming" which is the reason Malzahar mosy likely never will become FotM: he is horrid at surviving ganks while being a prime target for ganks if he does the whole pushpushpushpush thing almost any Malzahar does. And it is hard not to push as Malzahar."

Yes. As Malz, generally you value lane shoving more than roaming. He excels at pushing and then omg this little pet guy helps me kick down towers so well. But, akuma, then I'll just get ganked! Then ward approrpiately, watch your map, and make sure your lane opponent is in no shape HP-wise to help gank you in order to make your lane less enticing.

"And he also depends on his ultimate or a shit ton of CC to kill anything."

That's correct, but this means he counters assassins, bruisers and other dive champs in team fights very well.

"Ultimate that is removed by the support buying Mikhael's"

Mikhael's does not remove suppression, but QSS. Forcing your enemy carry to spend gold on QSS/Scimitar instead of allowing them to choose what 5/6th defensive item suits them or the rest of your team is a good thing imo.

"Also, he suffers the same problem that Swain suffers pre six: his actually damaging skills are DoT, which means he is at a disadvantage when it comes to facing all in burst champions."

This is 100% true. I've had trouble against annie and sometimes veigar before. Malz needs to combo his spells to trade effectively which is a hell of a lot harder than what other ap mids need to do. That said, Malz has crazy high base damage and can kick champs out of lane with one or two successful trades early on.