Talk:Malzahar/@comment-24.150.233.43-20130205225450/@comment-199.27.76.23-20130210225702

AD carry malzahar is squishy, can't crit (because voidling don't crit and you don't AA much), doesn't have enough AA range, has NO escape mechanism and ALL his spells barring W interfere with his AA animation, he doesn't have any decent sustain. He also doesn't really scale hard with AS. Crittlesticks and AD Leblanc at least have the benefit of mobility/sustain and CC that doesn't interfere with their AA (fear for fiddle and silence+root for lb). Malz also has gimicky AD scaling, since it requires your voidlings to be out and attack.

Basically, if you build malz like an ad carry, you won't have escape, won't have survivability, won't have mobility, won't AA much and your abilities won't deal much damage. It's like AP nasus or AP Diana, it just doesn't work.

On the other hand, building tanky allows Malz to stay alive enough to cast his spells to spawn voidling and CC the enemy team, since you don't have to worry about positioning and avoiding damage and you are not forced to AA 24/7 to actually deal damage.