Talk:Malzahar/@comment-78.147.167.250-20120508003726/@comment-82.47.159.170-20120508193054

I'd say his weakness is not lack of escape but complete lack of presence in team fights. He has two AoE abilities that will be dodged even by a blind monkey and DoT spell that can help to clear out after the team fight is already won, but won;t make you actually win it. His ultimate is just really bad given that you have to come out to all enemies to hit anyone and then do nothing for another 2.5 seconds if you want to use it to its full potential. Plus that ultimate has ridiculously short range so AD/AP carries can relatively easily avoid it hitting other players in their range. In late game, when team fights really matter, his ultimate will not even be a factor cause Ap and AD carry will have QSS to counter him or someone like Alistar to hard CC Malza and interrupt.

Honestly, just sum all these points up and you will see that lack of escapes is the least of Malza's problems.