Talk:Malzahar/@comment-5211662-20150506024629/@comment-8468980-20150521181454

"His lack of escape is his bane, though."

Malz's problem is that he's mostly DoT, outranged by several mages, and possesses no shorter cooldown moveblocks. Xerath, Syndra, Annie, Orianna, and Morg have no escape, but stay viable due to some combination of Burst, range, and CC. Cass is also mostly DoTs, outranged by several mages, and has no shorter CD moveblocks. But she gets tons of free stats and her spells have mechanics that allow her to hit like a burst mage.