Talk:Malzahar/@comment-5211662-20150506024629/@comment-5211662-20150508032447

His lack of escape is his bane, though. The problem is that he has unreliable CC (Q is a skillshot, ult is only avaliable at 6 and can be removed by QSS).

Also, Malzahar is not tanky. He may be tankier than other champions due to his itemization, but most champions who lack mobility have tankyness to compensate, or at least have absurdly high ranges on their spells. Even the few ones who don't have neither, have some sort of AoE ability that is devastating for teamfights (ex: Kennen, Karthus, Fiddlesticks) The problem with Malzahar, though, is that he just doesn't have any of those things, and this is combined with the fact that I said above, that Malzahar has unreliable CC.