Talk:Malzahar/@comment-5211662-20140811112211/@comment-25387037-20140905045159

Laning wise depends on your opponent but the whole Liandry's Rylai thing - i hit a minion somewhere, if you don't notice and E jumps on you, you take somewhere in the range of whatever damge the E does and 7 ticks of 4% current health. considering the diminishing damage return, it's still probably going to knock off 15% or so off a full health target. Or a tank let say. If all you have to burst down are squishies then you really, really don't need it. it adds no damage and you can get the health elsewhere, maybe the pen is nice, cdr whatever. If you're trying to take down some kind of lets say just 2000+hp tank you'll probably appreciate that 200 extra damage, which you would need 250 ap to do otherwise. Also the other item stats aren't irrelevant. Health is nice etc.

If you need to spam your spells because things aren't dying thats possibly a core problem in the first place.

But since you like to spam your spells, that combo is obviously not for you. I rarely use RoA or DFG, not neccesary so i would say neither is core. It's all playstyle.

Hell i've made a tanky/AD malz because it just happened to be what was needed in some game. I was taking hits while my minions beat things up and melee people had to stand in W to attack me. A lot of things can work depending on the match.