Talk:Malzahar/@comment-5259099-20120914075506/@comment-4929329-20120926220436

With even so little as Blue Buff, Malzahar has 620 + 1.6 per AP dmg off of just Q and E being on 7.2 & 5.6 second cooldowns at 650 and 900 range. That's rediculously good, and by no means does Malz need his pool to kill a high value target, since those are usually mobile, it is probably used best on the bruisers and tanks coming for you.

Assuming you have an average of 500 AP every game, your Pool does 40% + 500*0.05 or 65% of your HP before mitigation. With 100 Magic Resist and 4k health, it will deal 4000 * 0.325 = 1300 damage, and considering how large of a chunk that is from a medium cooldown spell that is AoE, you should value its ability to kill grouping bruisers and tanks over it stability to deal basically true dmg (2200*0.65=1300 vs a squishy) to squishies is honestly not all that useful when you compare it the rest of your moveset, which is oriented around killing squishies.

300+400= 700 dmg E with 500 AP vs squishy. 350 dmg vs a tank. Q is essentially the same as E, and R is just a bigger scale. (1200 vs 600)