Talk:Malzahar/Strategy/@comment-16064126-20150827061424

Why is Malz classified as an assassin? He has no mobility and ussualy stays near the back line, so I confused. Sure, he targets the carries, but so does almsot everbody else. In addition, becuase he lacks even CC for an escape (his only mobiltiy inparing CC also loking him down), he should build beefy to take a hit.

With the new AP item changes, this is possible and encouraged. Rylai's granting a nice chunk of HP (as well as some CC for escapes), Hourglass granting armor and that nice active, B-Veil granting HP, MR, and the passive. He has two Spellvamp items, one of which has an active to help escape. And all of these save B-Veil grant AP. Slap a rabbadon on that and you can still 1-shot people