Talk:Malzahar/@comment-46.12.76.198-20110715095629/@comment-212.117.1.33-20110721183750

Don't even consider buying Orianna or Vladimir, the best mages in this game are Swain, Malzahar, Brand and Kennen. Each represents a totaly different gameplay, so you should pick according to what you like to do. If you're a new with mages, I recommend Kennen, as he at least has a good escaping ability, and overall he's a very mobile mage, with all those stuns. However, I play mages A LOT, and I have to say that my favourite is Swain, but to most of the people he's pretty boring, since he specializes at damage over time (so you won't get easy kills), not like other mages, that burst down their target in 1 sec, but then they're useless as their skills are on cooldowns. But again, Kennen is different, since his skills has really short cooldowns, and you could say that he never runs out of resource to use his skills (energy in this case, for other mages it's mana).