Talk:Malzahar/@comment-10198490-20130807092313/@comment-15244341-20130916184926

I always thought that mobility based assassins were his bane. And AFK pushing with him works as long as you have enough AP for Malefic Vision to kill a creep by itself. If that's not the case, you are helping the skill with autos or whatever. In that case, you are setting what any jungler calls "free gold incoming" which is the reason Malzahar mosy likely never will become FotM: he is horrid at surviving ganks while being a prime target for ganks if he does the whole pushpushpushpush thing almost any Malzahar does. And it is hard not to push as Malzahar.

And he also depends on his ultimate or a shit ton of CC to kill anything. Ultimate that is removed by the support buying Mikhael's or, in the carry's case, a QSS or Mercurial Scimitar. Or any hard CC applied on Malzahar if the enemy has some support. Which admittedly is not always the case in laning fase, but since the range is terribly short and requires you to stun yourself makes it nothing short of suicidal to use in teamfights.

Also, he suffers the same problem that Swain suffers pre six: his actually damaging skills are DoT, which means he is at a disadvantage when it comes to facing all in burst champions.

Also, I wouldn't give two cents about a Malzahar-Talon or Malzahar-Kha'Zix matchup. Zed is another story, since you can ult him afte he uses R to negate it, taking away most os his killing potential. I see Malzahar better against champions with awful waveclear and bad mobility, so that they cannot follow their jungle well, since they should be eating tower al day long.