Talk:Malzahar/@comment-4107784-20130708040317/@comment-4922088-20130710112800

There are a lot of champions that just push the crap out of you and seem hard to deal with but none of them are at Yorick's level of lack of counter-play. Yorick has a self speed boost, AoE slow, strong stustain, and not to mention the ability to continue to fight you even after you do manage to kill him thanks to his ult. Literally almost anything you do to the guy he has a way to punish you for doing it.

Malzahar however is incredibly easy to punish for what he does. He has no reliable escapes, naturally pushes, and his dueling potential goes down the toilet if you actually build defensive enough to survive his ult or just purchase a QSS.

Yes you have to take a non-standard build to fight him, but if one build worked perfectly fine in every situation the game would get old and fast.

Just sacrafice some early game power to get early MR and his dueling power becomes moot. Now all you have to do is farm when he easily gives you since he pushes so hard to get over that weak point and now you're back in the game.

It's the same with Fiddlesticks, a different build wrecks him. Tenacity and MR make for a sad scarecrow him because he can't lock you down long enough to actually get all of his damage off.