Talk:Malzahar/@comment-5211662-20150417011907/@comment-8468980-20150425181810

"His problem is that despite the fact that his E recovers mana, it is only reliable for laning phase. Post lane phase, he needs a way to cover his mana problems, otherwise he will be oom during teamfights and skirmishes."

100% disagree, the mana recovery from the spell isn't particularly very strong. It's fair once you sink enough ranks and ap into it but before then it's a careful laning phase for Malz. Meanwhile, post laning phase, you're be saving most of your spells to chain off of tank initiation or to tag an enemy out of position. Malz doesn't really have the spell range to be safely poking enemies a la Ziggs, Synda, Xerath, Corki, so you won't be spamming.

You really don't need much CDR with Malz, regardless of how much you have, you'll still be using ulti once during a team fight and that's primarily the only time you're going to be using W. In addition, E has an uptime of four seconds and a down time of 3, you don't need much CDR to reduce the amount of time you can keep E on a single enemy but even that's an unlikely scenario. So, the only spell that truly benefits from CDR in Malz's kit is Q.

Mana sustain (aka mana pool, mana regen, mana replenishing unique passives) and CDR are neat tools, but Malz should be itemizing for AP primarily and a bit of mitigation for the late game. Nothing especially different from most AP mages tbh.