Talk:Malzahar/@comment-25517398-20141009051655/@comment-5211662-20141017093929

Deathfire Grasp is not a core item for Malzahar; however, it is a great item to get on him. It makes it so that no champion can survive your combo, not even full tanks. Even without the active, this item has an enormous amount of AP (and Malzahar scales well with AP) and cooldown reduction. I always get it as my second item on Malzahar, unless under certain circunstances (for example: Zed on the enemy team? Then before I finish a DFG, I finish Zhonya's Hourglass)

Also, how can cooldown reduction is not great on Malzahar? It is great on almost any champion except maybe a few ones, such as Yasuo. In fact, even though his base damage screams "magic penetration" the boots of choice that I get for Malzahar sometimes is Ionian Boots of Lucidity. If I do that, then I buy Void Staff as my third AP item. Malzahar does not need to worry about not having a lot of AP, as he has great AP ratios.