Talk:Malzahar/@comment-4948122-20120520181302/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120520200202

You are a much better laner than Mordekaiser. Morde just pushes his lane all day, ends up at enemy turret, and then gets ganked. Malz has the perk of being able to last-hit from range, and once he has enough AP to farm with a well placed malefic vision+voidling. Unlike morde who must stay near the minion wave, you can retreat at the EXP range edge and still farm safely. You can check bushes before advancing with your call of the void if you don't have a ward; and at level 6, if you are reactive enough you can inst-gib the opposing AP carry before dying, or even making it alive if the jungler doesn't have enough damage. QQS is not a big problem; void staff is usually built on malz anyway.

His ult has the same issues as any other channels: Nunu, Katarina, WW, etc... Nothing majorly UP there; especially since the range of your ult is pretty good, allowing you to stay at the back of the teamfight rather than poor WW or Kata who are almost forced to channel in the middle of the fight.

His silence isn't supposed to be a true harass tool in lane; but more like an interrupt and an area-denial spell to avoid enemy harass, like a wall. It's not THAT hard to land if you predict the movement of your opponent; I land it 75% of the time. His E range is short to force malz to place himsefl in a (relatively) vulnerable position in order to harass/farm.