Talk:Malzahar/@comment-5211662-20140605083007

To be honest, Malzahar doesn't fall off late-game as many people say. Actually, Malzahar shines the most late-game. This is because he can easily kill even tanks and bruisers with his combo (just like Zed). So imagine what Malzahar can do to squishy characters; Malzahar can usually either kill anything.

The problem is that if your enemy team is smart, they will know that and focus you. However, I've managed to carry a game where even though the enemy always tried to dive me, my allied tanks protected me, and I could carry the game because I put out lots of AoE damage.

This means that if Malzahar's team protects him, he can still carry games, even better than those popular mobile APCs/assassins because he does insane damage, sufficient to even kill tanks, and forces their carries to buy QSS just to counter him - this means that they usually don't buy items that could potentially save them or flip the tables on teamfights, such as Banshee's Veil and Guardian Angel.

It is even better if their team is dumb and don't know how to deal with Malzahar. Unfortunately this usually happens only on low elo games.