User blog comment:NicknameMy/My Malzahar Rework/@comment-8050014-20160403203250/@comment-3493296-20160405180811

He doesn't need to have mana, because his cooldowns scaling with levels instead of ability level, keeping the void spawn and spell spamming in check. Mana just hurts the concept of a Void Spawner very hard, without mana, you basically wouldn't exist at all. People like Azir or Yorick have similar problems. I feel like, the new cooldown mechanic instead of mana fixes the problems those champions have and the strength those champions have better than mana.

If you think Malzahar's Q is easy to hit, you probably never played him at the server, his Q is as hard to hit and as easy to dodge as Cho'gath's Q, which has a similar amount of strength, actually it deals less damage than now. And I even reduced the range of the spell by 200.

All of his skills deal less damage. Plus you notice the delay on his ultimate or E which makes it rather hard to hit any of your spells.