Talk:Malzahar/@comment-69.141.8.150-20130128213126

Malzahar eats middle lane fotm assasins for breakfast and craps out voidlings and spaces aids!

Except Kassadin, screw Kassadin.

Q, E, E, W, Max E then W and always take R when possible.

boots + 3 pots

Chalice, HG (don't waste money on rings anymore, think of chalice+HG as your super Doran's Ring that builds into better items) Sorc Boots

Deathcap

Rylai's, Void staff, Liandry's, and Athene's are all good options at this point and which you take depends on your enemies and where the match happens to be at this point.

Rylai's is a good all round item since it's a fair chunk of AP, grants the mitigation du jour hp, and makes everything you do slow enemies which makes team fights safer for you and pursuing enemies easier too.

Void Staff if your enemies are building MR.

Liandry's if you are doing well and your enemies aren't building much mr yet.

Athene's works well for extended team fights, turret seiges, poke wars etc.

WotA's a garbage item on him since if you're taking damage, you're not in a spot you should be. It's really that simple. He's not Rumble, Mord, Vlad, or Ryze he can't back up spellvamp with tons of resources to blow and mitigation stats. Nor is he Akali, Diana, Katarina, or Fizz who can zip out of bad exchanges. He has no move block aside from his ult and he can only rely on flash for escape, get tagged with a stun out of position and you're dead regardless of how much spellvamp you bought.

The best advice I can give is to farm like crazy, out poke enemies early on, then seal kills with R or push them out of lane. Then when you're fed, you can 100% them with your combo. Play safe early on and let your E and voidlings harass enemies. If they're telegraphing their movements a lot, then drop a Q on them for a free E.