Talk:Malzahar/Strategy/@comment-4770124-20120202124635/@comment-166.248.67.10-20120522223328

Sounds to me like the issue is either A: your team comp. or B: yours kill.

A: You are a mage. your team should understand this. it's nice if you have a good team, who understands that you are not the tank, even if you do have 3k hp with ryalas.They should attempt to peel anybody off of you that you happen to attract. This will mitigate lots of damage to you, meaning you only have to worry about bursts from champs like veigar, or getting cain CCed and being initiated upon, which you can usually avoid with plan b.

B: you could be lacking the skill. First consider that Malz's q and w have pretty large ranges, and can hit the bulk of the enemy team from good range. That means you aren't worried about being in their face, so peeling them off of you is much easier. Positioning is a fine art, and malz is no exception, since you have to be in rage to cast, but not die. Make sure that you're at the back of team fights, because your range is huge. the closest you should ever be, is activating e or r, and that is only temporary/under team supervision.

IN THE LANE: your pokes have huge range. Your q, primary poke, is super long range, meaning only a few champs can even hit you (lux, cass), and you MV can have some epic damage from jumping. That means your harass range is larger than theirs, and if you're getting hit, you're getting hit because you're missing q, or not dodging skillshots (since that's the only thing with that kind of range) both of which rely on your skill.

I usually only build ryala's as def until my final item, which i rarely every get to. My point is, YOU ARE THE AP CARRY. YOU HAVE TO BE IN TEAMFIGHTS. Learn to dodge those skillshots, and rely on your team to stop those who want to tke a shit on your face, and you'll win most of your games.