I've begun playing more Malzahar lately.
His damage output is outrageous. Truly, truly outrageous. Vlads have turned from annoyances into delicious snacks.
As long as malz zones conservatively, he's just devastating. It's starting to remind me of old fiddlesticks, which is probably why I've been playing him so much. Also he will most likely not get nerfed any time soon, because of his lack of team utility other than pure unadulterated AP damage.
So has anyone else heard about the proposed changes for ignite? Removing the damage component and adding a fucking 20% additional damage dealt to ignited target from all sources?
Also the only bad thing about malz is his ult stuns himself for the duration too. However malz is deadly and annoying, at level 6 is a garaunteed kill with flash + ignite.
It's only bad if you're stupid enough to get into a confrontation where you're outnumbered / not properly protected and activate it in the first place.
Besides, 15% health per second hottub of death for 5 seconds + 1000 damage over 3 seconds + voidling + 700 damage over 5 seconds = guarenteed death for anything short of pure MR or a stun anyways. Add a good teammate and it doesn't even matter.
Also if someone has a QSS (hint: anyone who's any good) pretty much counters him hard, since his ult + E are cleansed by it. Also it's not more like you active it 2v1, it's more you activate it then the jungler who happens to be right there because that's just your luck ganks you.