Talk:Malzahar/@comment-33128512-20190527210553/@comment-26808509-20190529161115

Ye, unfortunately the sucked all the power out of his interesting mechanics and put them into his point and click abilites (E and R). For a short time after his rework he was a really fun character. The only thing that kind of was overtuned was that his passive lasted for way too long and had a way too low cooldown and his Voidlings were a bit too oppressive... then they changed his voidlings which made them even stronger... then they changed his ult - which until that point was completely balanced - and made it fucking op, while also deleting his Voidlings. And at the end they nerfed Q.

All he has now is his E, which is strong but not really interesting, and his R. That's it. His Q is bad and only usefull for its silence (only in late game tho, since the duration is short early on) and the E refresh, but the damage on its own is just flat out bad. And his Voidlings literally don't exist. They die instantly to everything, making them only usefull if he clears minion waves without an enemy being near. So, you know... never. Or in the very unlikely event that you 1v1 someone and manage it to R someone before they died.

The only reason he still is a stable midlane pick is because he clears waves very efficiently and his R makes him a good gank partner. Means his whole playstyle in the early to midgame revolves around farming and waiting for your jungler to gank and get a free kill. That's it. It's boring, it's uninteractive and it's honestly sad. Cause I really liked the Malzahar pre-rework. And I liked him shortly after the rework (with the weak R, but strong basic spells) aswell.

But now I just feel sad for him. He has been reduced to two spells and that's fucked up.