Talk:Malzahar/@comment-25301945-20160515172019/@comment-7463332-20160912042546

It is largely more powerful than proper spellshields, but you know how there's no element of timing and decision involved? How you can't actually choose, as the Malzahar, when you're going to pop it? If there's some 45% CDR Xerath or something landing every Q imaginable, you're not going to be able to block that Veigar ult or Elise cocoon or whatever. Anyhow, Malzahar as a battlemage is supposed to have a defensive tool to allow him to keep outputting his damage in the middle of a teamfight, while Sivir just has a spellshield becasue she's from back when everyone had a defensive ability and Nocturne's spellshield, while it exists for similar reasons to Malz's passive, is something to stop him from being completely shut down as a melee skirmisher/diver sort of champion who doesn't so much need to get into a fight whenever and start outputting damage as figure out when and where to go in and kill someone. Also, Sivir's doubles as a mana restore if used successfully, and Nocturne's is an attack speed steroid.