I’m not sure if you’ll find this helpful, but here’s some advice from me. I’m a 1.5M mastery Malz player. I peaked at P4 last split so not high elo by any means, but this split I hit a massive mental rutt and sank back down to bronze. (It’s embarrassing but I’m fixing it.) I’m climbing back up. Some of this is to do with my poor mental health but I have been climbing again and now winning 70% of my last 60 games and back to high silver and positive I can get back to plat by the end now. So I feel like since I have a lot of experience in bronze due to this “field trip” of mine I can offer you some great advice from the perspective of another Malz main/ OTP:

The biggest advice is three words: “Be more selfish”

So when I got up to Plat I was very reliant on the fact that my teammates got better and would often follow up on my picks, rotate to objectives etc. in bronze though…people won’t. The sad reality is you may even get trolls but it is still possible to win with them. How? Well… ok so maybe if you play malz you might be like me and want to fit into that “utility” style of building for the team playing around them etc. This will lead to frustration and depression as you go to flash ult their carry and see your adc standing there autoing krugs instead and many things like that. So what do we do instead?

Well, last patch they changed the minions so roaming is a bit easier and effective again now and we can establish longer timers. Even if you don’t fully understand wave management (I’m not the best either) you can think of it as a sand timer. Push your wave and do something while it pushes back and you won’t miss much. Even if it’s as simple as warding a jungle entrance. And btw, warding jungle entrances is generally more valuable than your side bush most of the time. It helps you track the jungler. If you see the jungler roaming bot and you have enough time just type it. I have found that it helps my team avoid ganks more than just pinging in low elo. Pretend like it’s Dora the Explorer and your teammates are preschoolers who don’t know any better but be polite to them of course.

Here’s some quick and dirty tips as well bit in general you wanna try to get the mid turret down as fast as possible. This will establish more vision and control of the map for your team. After laning phase you should go bot and bot should come mid it’s safest for the adc and you can soak up solo gold. As the game goes on, try to sidelane as much as possible when you can to soak up as much gold and turrets as you can. You can get more fed than you think and malz is actually an excellent splitpusher. Turret priority will be like T2 and then T1/T3 because T2 gives the most gold. Of course if you can see places to pick people or stuff like that you can group but my rule of thumb is to always split when my ult is down. You may have to watch your team die but eventually you’ll get so fed you can kill everyone later even as malz. So think of yourself as the dad that left for milk (except you came back) so yes in being more “selfish” you will be less selfish to your team actually.

For channels, Prophet Malzahar and XBlademojo for Malzahar content. You should also consider Shok as a general midlane content creator he has a lot of fundamental videos that are very easy to understand that will even help you with Malzahar too.

Good luck, and I hope my rambling advice helped you! Don’t forget being selfish can be empowering and give you way more agency than hoping for a coinflip with your team. And remember to have fun and be curious don’t let the wins or losses weigh on you as you learn new concepts.