Talk:Malzahar/@comment-8588654-20140219064455/@comment-7967732-20140224000527

Even with ghost + flash, you will still die easily. Sure, Mal is excellent against tower dive, but in a long lane as top lane, good luck getting back to that tower consider you will often push hard. Things like Rengar, KhaZix, Elise, Nocturne, Pantheon don't really care about wards either, so you are still in danger even when constantly buy wards.

Another problem is how to build him in top lane. Building as usual AP carry means your team won't have a tank, an initiator, and thru out laning phase, you just put yourself in more danger dying in ganks (for being too squishy). If you build him tanky, his damage will suck (Q & W are very unreliable) and any true tanks outscale you hard.