User blog comment:EpicSmith93/EpicSmith's Malzahar Guide/@comment-3358335-20110523221512

I avoid Mejai's. Snowball items are dependent on your opponents failing. But it also creates an enormous target on you. Their assasin/anti-carry will show up a little late to the fight and obliterate anyone building a snowball item, to the point of uselessness. . .I'd go with an AA, it's more consistent.

Or even a Morello's, so you can spawn out voidlings fast.