Talk:Malzahar/@comment-20434720-20140415055035

Perhaps it's simply my normals MMR being really low, but Malzahar sure can stomp when the other team has no clue what he does ... granted, the same can be said about pretty much anyone, but it's still super fun. Past 4 games I've played as Malzahar have been awesome (well, there was also one with a trolling teammate, but hey, that's league for you) - usually I end up with over 10 kills and less than 5 deaths, above-average farm (at my MMR, though, that means I still suck. If I was half-decent I'd have double their CS... the people I play against can't farm worth crap, and given how bad at it I am, that's saying a lot), and a major influence in games.

Normally I rush ROA - gotta get that stacking quickly, after starting with a doran's ring. Usually at some stage of ROA I get boots and/or another doran's ring, then go straight into haunting guise + sorc boots after upgrading catalyst (the reason I do this is that, in addition to excellent scalings, malz also has huge base numbers on his full combo, and once you hit, with runes, 40 MPen, you're doing true damage to squishies... almost always enough to annihalate them, even if you're behind). After this I build into deathcap, then choose between Rylai's, Void Staff, or Hourglass depending on what I need. Full build ends up being ROA, Liandry's, Rylai's, Sorcs, Deathcap, Situational (Void staff, Hourglass, maybe even abyssal or chalice if there's a fed enemy AP).

The reason I tell you this build pattern is because I'm wondering if you've got any ideas on what I could improve.

But man the gameplay is utterly hilarious at many points... that time when they stand an inch too close to their infected minion, it bounces, I start autoattacking, my voidling starts autoattacking, and they wonder why that E did 70% of their health... pretty much all they can (and should) do is run away, because if they stick around I can just press R and get a free kill. And when their full health jungler starts running towards me after my lane opponent had to back while i'm at 2/3 health and I land a solid Q, place W under him and follow up with E that summons a voidling and they, too, have to get the heck out of there ASAP or risk dying...

Man malzahar is just so much fun.

The only problem I find myself having with him is farming with E. Yeah sure it's pretty easy after it's about rank 4 and each tick does a substantial amount of damage, but at ranks 1-3 it's kind of tricky to actually get the last hit when chaining E bounces. Any tips?