Welcome to the League of Legends Champion Spotlight presented by Riot Games featuring
Malzahar, the Prophet of the Void.
Malzahar is League of Legends' newest caster.
He has a lot of damage over time skills giving him a very persistent output in battles, but
at the same time allowing him to deal extremely heavy damage to single targets.
His first spell, Call of the Void, opens two portals in a line which shoot projectiles
between them after a short delay.
These projectiles also silence enemies that they hit.
Second he can cast Null Zone which marks a circular area on the ground for a few seconds,
dealing damage to each enemy based on their maximum health.
Malzahar can also cast Malefic Visions, which is a single target damage over time spell.
However if the target dies before the spell expires, it refunds some mana back to Malzahar,
jumps to a new target and refreshes its duration.
With this spell, you can clear entire minion waves.
His ultimate is Nether Grasp which Malzahar can channel at an enemy target for up to 2.5
seconds, stunning and dealing damage as he channels.
His passive, Summon Voidling, summons a pet every few spell casts to fight for Malzahar.
The voidling grows stronger over time and then expires.
For runes, I use magic penetration marks, flat health on seals and quintessences and
cooldown reduction on glphys.
For masteries I go 9/0/21getting magic penetration in offense and taking standard utility masteries,
regeneration, experience, movement speed and cooldowns.
My summoner spells are Ignite and Ghost.
Ignite can be cast while channeling his ultimate and also counts towards Summoning the Voidling.
Ghost is useful because you do damage overtime.
You'll be casting spells repeatedly along the lengthy movement speed boost.
Unfortunately we couldn't record sounds this game but I think his gameplay more than
makes up for it.
Against another Malzahar in mid, I cast Malefic Visions and lead him with Call of the Void.
Then I burn him down with Nether Grasp and Ignite.
Ganking Soraka at top, I catch her with Call of the Void, chasing her into the brush.
I again combo with Malefic Visions, Ignite and Nether Grasp for another kill.
Back in mid, I push onto Malzahar again.
While fighting him, Evelynn comes to gank me. Thankfully, I've already cast Malefic
Visions on him and I use Ghost to stay out of Evelynn's range.
Then on the way out I land a Call of the Void for some free gold.
In the aftermath of the battle Malzahar is being chased out by Master Yi.
From around the corner I lead him with Call of the Void and pick up my third kill.
A fight breaks out in mid.
Notice Malefic Visions jumping from a minion onto Malzahar mid fight.
I toss Malefic Visions onto Nidalee and lead her with Call of the Void.
As Master Yi casts alpha strike we get the weakened Malzahar as well.
Rammus and the rest of the team gank us while we creep the dragon.
Null Zone starts dealing crazy damage to most of their team.
I go right for the most important target that I can reach which is Evelynn and crush her
with Nether Grasp on top of my other spells.
Afterwards I try to support my teammate as he dies, allowing me to pick off Nidalee with
Malefic Visions while she runs away.
Then as Rammus tries to escape I Ghost into range, tag him with Visions and lead him with
Call of the Void for my third kill of the fight.
As we get pushed I catch up with my teammate Ashe, quickly enough to convert Evelynn into gold.
Continuing the trend of being a great solo mid champion, I try to grab first blood against Ashe.
There are two really important points here.
One, I only have enough mana for a single spell and two, Ignite can be cast while channeling
and it also counts towards the passive and summons a voidling.
You can see here that Ashe didn't actually die to Nether Grasp or Ignite but actually
to my voidling.
Shortly afterwards Fiddlesticks dies on me, again I have to count my mana noting that
the best course of action is to cast Malefic Visions and stun with Nether Grasp.
There's another great point here, because an earlier cast of Malefic Visions killed
two minions mid fight, allowing me enough mana to cast Call of the Void.
Malzahar is an awesome ganker, I find Fiddlesticks in the jungle with close to full health, but
I'm able to do over 1000 damage in just a few seconds with Call of the Void and to
my damage overtime combo.
We find our opponents in the jungle once more.
Notice that I run to cut off Fiddlesticks instead of chasing him through his teammates.
As the enemies push into our base, I look for an easy target.
I tag Rammus with Malefic Visions and Nether Grasp picking up kill number one.
Second I drop Call of the Void onto Soraka bringing out my voidling who is actively pushing
out the enemy Malzahar.
Soraka falls and Malzahar actually dies trying to leave the base.
Another fight erupts in the bottom of the map.
Right away I go for the most important target Soraka.
Deathfire Grasp, Ignite and Nether Grasp pull her apart very quickly.
I follow Rammus out of the battle and use Ghost to dodge Fiddlestick's crowstorm.
I light up Malzahar with Malefic Visions and that jumps onto Rammus for my third kill of the fight.
As the battle winds down, we run across Fiddlesticks hiding in the brush.
Melefic Visions hits him extremely hard and after he dies I stop to farm a few monsters
as my voidling fights the minions just below.
However, Ashe comes running at us so I dodge her for a bit with Zhonya's Ring and then
as I back off I make a quick detour to use Deathfire Grasp trying to scare her away.
Unafraid she chases me down, but as I bait her into the brush, Nether Grasp takes the
last of her health.
Again I pay special attention to my mana costs, that was the only spell that would have killed
her and I only had mana for one.
Also notice that this was a delayed penta kill, as I killed every champion that fight.
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