Talk:Malzahar/@comment-67.127.233.146-20120708081600/@comment-5162027-20120708083023

1. He literally has no mana issues after a few points in E. He can guarantee kill caster minions after about level 3 in the skill with just an auto attack or two, not counting any extra damage you might do to the melee minions. That's just at level 3 in the skill, level 4 and 5 you can pretty much clear any minion wave and gain mana and gold while wandering away.

2. The lack of utility is one of two reasons why he's never really picked, in this he's the same as Brand.

3. His ultimate channel is what stops it from being broken as shit. Same as why Warwick's ult is channeled as well, because if you can suppress an enemy WHILE MOVING that champion would be perma-ban until it's changed.

4. Pushing the lane is not a bad thing for mid per se, since you can do a variety of things with it. You can push the lane then sit under your turret in complete safety, you can go steal wraith camp, you can go and roam. Additionally, it really hurts enemy mids who can't push effectively at all and have trouble farming under their turret, like LeBlanc for example.

5. This is the other thing. Nether Grasp, mechanically, is Warwicks ult with more damage. The downside is that EVERYONE knows abotu QSS being a counter to him, and his ult is a not insignificant portion of his potential burst. Everyone who buys QSS when malzahar is on the other team will be ready to use it as soon as you start it. It's not that he's countered by things, because Warwick is seen a lot- it's that unlike Warwick, he has a lot more stigma about his weakness. Warwick can tank and whatnot outside of his Ult, but without Malzahar's ult, his burst is a lot less effective and that's pretty much ALL he has.

6. The high CD on his skills is to make up for the extreme damage output he has if he does, god forbid, land his shit against someone successfully.

Hope that at least showed some of the other side to his story for you. He's a fun champ to play in normals and such, but just outclassed by brains, sadly.