Talk:VPBE/@comment-6061249-20140518163620/@comment-1330314-20140518175331

I think the problem with Malzahar's mana refund is that, even though it may feel slightly lackluster, it also becomes really overwhelming when Malzahar has lane dominance. and can't really refund the mana cost of any one spell with their passives, so they need to last hit with autoattacks to make use of them, and  needs to constantly find the optimal angle on his Q to be able to make the most of the refund. Malzahar, on the other hand, runs into a problem of lane dominance: if he manages to intimidate his opponent, he can kill all six/seven creeps with one case of his E alone and refund more mana than he spent by autoattacking the infected creep as they're taking damage. On the other hand, if he's behind and/or getting harassed, it becomes a lot more difficult to kill even a second creep with Malefic Visions, so he may not even break even. With the whole ability being point-and-click, there's no real additional window of interactivity you can give it that would even out these cases.