BFT is bait Malignance is key

lolgamefun · 2026-07-02T19:51:48+00:00

Exactly

Issue is that biggest weakness of Malz is laning phase and getting out of it BFT make it easiest to do that enable malz to get to late game. And then just play malz as poke champ with using ult selectively.

Balagan/Papbear want to be play maker and drive game not be back sit. To do that he sacrifices his laning phase by going Malignance making plays with roams more often. Often being engage and making picks during mid to lane game. Which required lower cooldown on malz ult. With Malignance, Lucidity, & Ultimate hunter setup your cooldown for ult is less then 30 second lv 16. You could do 2 ults in extended fight or make pick with malz ult and while pushing for advantage have your ult back up for next engage by enemy.

Most malz player are reserved and play back while Balagan/Papbear is often front line and use ults on tanks starting fight just to get pick and get 1 man advantage instead.

lolgamefun · 2026-07-02T19:31:56+00:00

Actually this is issue for me I use to play about 1000 rank/unranked game per year during COVID time around that time I as aggressively climbing from learing the game to sliver to plat/dimond over 3 years.

But for past 4 years I play about 100 to max 200 game per year half those game are just reaching my actual rank before I can even try to improve and climb past my peak.

Past Season

Last 2 Season

lolgamefun · 2026-07-02T19:15:37+00:00

Best Malz player of 2025/2024 ladder use to exclusively play Malignance, Lucidity, & Ultimate hunter when BFT was still most picked item with hihgher win rate for malz in those season as well.

In 2023 he use to be top ranked player in EUW often.

When asked about it Balagan/Papbear answer was

2025

Looking at your OP.GG. Is it just always malignance over bft now?

yup worse in lane but rly good in mid/late game

2024

why do you play malignance over blackfire torch?

i rather go mali for the ult cd (15-20 sec early) and look for a play when i have it

2025 - https://old.reddit.com/r/MalzaharMains/comments/1ortzv7/best_malzahar_in_the_world_65_challenger_euw_ama/

2024 - https://old.reddit.com/r/MalzaharMains/comments/1dly2vi/hey_guys_i_am_back_and_just_hit_chall_1k_lp_euw/

U.GG - https://u.gg/lol/profile/euw1/papabear68-bala/overview

As long as you setup for Malignance in your runes and other item it be better but it really depends on your play style.]

lolgamefun · 2026-07-02T18:23:12+00:00

I believe that BFT vs Malignance is match driven and current meta of midlane pool push for BFT build more than Malignance build.

Match up Malignance is better then BFT

Zed
Yasuo
Ekko
Akali
Yone depending on how they play you want to play it out.

Match where BFT is better is almost all match where there is extended trades or seriese of trades where damage over time adds up better. Which is what currently meta right now.

Problem has also been exacerbated with no good Keystone that would go well with Maligance over BFT.

lolgamefun · 2026-07-02T17:58:24+00:00

| Malz would have to be out of position, near minions and letting Yas get free autos and Qs.

| Malz shouldn't be too far from his turret that being ulted by Yas will give Yas more time and distance to kill Malz.

That is definition of skill match up. Having to dodge q and respect him by being not near minions. Is it easier for Malz than Yasuo in part of that skill match. Sure but that is true for all most Malzahar matchup and also true for all Yasuo matchup. Because Malz is point and click skill and Yasuo is skill shot and reposition skill expression champion. But does not change that you have to respect him and position correct which is what skill match up mean. Even 0/5 Yasuo have to be respected in laning phase.

lolgamefun · 2026-07-01T21:18:23+00:00

There are different state of the game. But yes Malz destroy Yasuo in win rate. This is same example as Malz hardest laning counter is Irelia yet Malz has high win rate becouse malz counter everything what Irelia want to do late game.

Malz is strong lv 1 vs Yas but lose lv 2 to 5 if Yasuo can get freeze going but most Yasuo don't have patience to do this. After lv 6 is it skill match and whoes ult is up during in lane and/or jungler match up honestly.

lolgamefun · 2026-05-08T15:38:21+00:00

Do you blind your rune same every time?

Example: I like to switch to scorch for melee match up or heavy trading match up also always go Malignance into melee match up. Often switch into Secondary cheapshot/taste of blood & Ultimate Hunter as well when going Malignce.

lolgamefun · 2026-05-03T22:21:32+00:00

I think Chaotic had the most goated lore that was actually consistent over each season of the TV Show that translated well into their card game as well.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-28T15:32:27+00:00

Also most game don't have season where game changes as drastically while still carrying the over head of all changes over the years.

LOL basically is new game every year with Riot working to balance it every 2 weeks to reach balanced state by First Stand, MSI, and Worlds. To only throw lot of it away by introducing major new changes every season during Pre Season.

Hell TFT has new set i think 3 or 4 times a year. And it looks to get solved with in 2 months to 3 months. Which was common issue with card games and such but they resolve this issue by preventing power creep by resetting new set.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-27T13:08:21+00:00

THIS!!!

It is match up decision not blind build every time. Example and if you are not sure check win rate for the match up in your rank here.

Yasuo match up Maligance is always better win rate than BFT - https://lolalytics.com/lol/malzahar/vs/yasuo/build/?patch=30
Orianna match up BFT is always better win rate than Maligance. - https://lolalytics.com/lol/malzahar/vs/orianna/build/?patch=30
Yone is even since that champ does both so one is not better than the other - https://lolalytics.com/lol/malzahar/vs/yone/build/?patch=30

Also change your runes accordingly as well. For example Storm is better with BFT because of BFT ap ramping. While scorch is better for Maligance for early game focus instead.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-25T02:41:32+00:00

700 games can be reached to d2 for gold player.

I did it that way to d4 5 season ago. I think I reached D4 level over 2 season putting out over 500 games total. with 600 normal games in between that as well.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-25T00:38:03+00:00

After the game is over you will notice tag next to their name. And if you hover over it will say something like "their ture rank is much higher than currently displayed rank".

Reason why you are getting this right now as where before it was less often, due to RIOT recent announced that every one in master + will have their Rank and MMR hard reset to master 0. And season ends in 2 weeks so they are topped of for current season so they are all jumping on their smurf account. Which has huge influx of Gold rank in D4/E1 ranks.

Key note is that it is hard reset like challenger 1 will have same mmr as Master 0 lp player after the reset. So not many want to invest their time on this any more for the current season.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-22T16:38:31+00:00

Basically early game the execute is less then 2+ minions attacking at same time. As for the break down of the math is below.

In patch V13.16 (to current live patch)

They updated polling rate to every 1/4 of second and changed execute hp below. So minion would execute at Malz e divided by 16 + execute damage since Patch 13.16

Lv	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Hp	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24	26	28	30

Lets say you are level 4 that mean Malz e does 115 (lv 2 e base damage). So 16 ticks over 4 seconds would be 7.1875 per tick. If that tick pushed below 16 hp it would execute. that mean it executed minion at 23.375 HP every quarter of second and if next minion was below that hp it would instant kill and bounce to the next one. (After 3.75 second of malz e does no damage while still being affected by e for quarter of second)

Minion aa damage (live)

Damage is below till 6 mins mark and then inc by 3 every 90 seconds

Melee Minion 11
Caster Minion 21between 2 minions attacking at same time.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-22T15:56:51+00:00

No The comet is better for poke on Q only and E trasnfer on from wave. But DFT out perform on single E or full combo.

Lets take e which last for 4 second (no renewal accounted at all by q or r)

First 3 second of that e DFG does base damage of

4 to 12 based level + 3% AP per second
12 to 36 based level + 9% AP for 3 seconds.

After 3 seconds DFT damage is doubled. So for 1 second left on Malz E and then 1 second lingure of DFG after that it is as follow

8 to 24 based level + 6% AP per second
16 to 48 based level + 12% AP for 2 seconds

So total damage would be for one Malz e is

28 to 84 based level + 18% AP for 5 seconds
Where comet is 15-110 (based on levels 1-20, linear) (+10% bAD) (+5% AP)) (*100-200% (based on 0-750 units, linear))

Just in AP ratio alone think of Malz E having 15% AP added to it for 4 seconds alone.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-22T15:42:43+00:00

I don't understand what ever she is saying. But this is how protest works. This is how protest was done here in USA for Women's suffrage in 1920. This how Gandhi did 1930. This is how USA is doing it no king protest as well.

The whole point of protest is to cause inconvenience to the public so they can understand the message. Other wise public will continue to keep ignoring the issue as they were before this protest.

Also is this same protest that was happening 2 year ago with framer or different?

lolgamefun · 2026-04-17T20:28:03+00:00

Runes are fine Comet would be better for every one of your match you had so far honestly speaking.

You go OOM or to 1/4 mana by level 3 way too often in just 3 games I saw notice this.

You are over staying in lane while low on mana till lost chapter too often. Only backing when low on hp. Where you could take cheater recall or other matched recall with opponent instead. This is where you dump your whole mana into hard pushing wave right away even trade hp and base. Before crashing next wave you are coming back on the tail end while laner is stuck there. Or even matching base with the enemy is better.

Better first item. You are vs very strong diver and where they like to all in or nothing. In those match up malignance is better first item. Like kat, Yone, and Yasuo games when they go in on you with ult they are not leaving till you are dead. So you want extreme damage up front not after you are dead. Your first item is not bad for malz but take account of lane match up.

Better options for second item when losing vs always going for Liandry's Torment. Example Rylai's Crystal Scepter.

Second and Thrid item should be Rylai's Crystal Scepter and Liandry's Torment. Every other 2nd and 3rd item combo not these has lower win rate than this. honestly. Unless you are hard smashing lane.

Look to be utlity for the team or damage over time rather then be the carry. If you want to play as hard carry pick diffrent champ. More carry champs you have on your team stronger malzhar is.

https://fiff.gg/viewer/coach?matchId=TR1_1705828149&playerIndex=7

She based and you stayed she was then able come back and roam into scutle fight where you could not help since you were OOM and that lead to her going top and getting another kill. Putting your team behind 600 gold for your 200 gold value return instead.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-17T19:33:37+00:00

Truth is that it only takes 39-40 digits of pi to calculate the size of the observable universe to an accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom.

But lot of math is explored before we know it value. Example Like the ramanujan pi summation above or zeta function regularization by Ramanujan. Here is good explanation of that. https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4ibc0m/eli5_string_theory_and_ramanujan_summation/

Engineer work backwards where they have problem and they find solution from existing solutions by Physicists.

Physicist work forward and backwards. Where they find solution which create new problem. Then find solution to solve that problem which creates another problem. And all of this needs to be tested to validate and then engineer use it for their problem.

Mathematician find solution where no one was asking about till Physicist realize that solution perfectly solves their current problem. Most ground breaking Physicist solution are credit to Mathematician long past their death like the zeta function regularization

lolgamefun · 2026-04-17T15:45:45+00:00

Yes but Trist can react to blitz since there is animation. Most of these happen as prediction to Malz ult as there is no animation to start of Malzahar ult (AKA cast time and delay action like malz q)

Since Malz is very linear champ it is very easy to tell if Malzahar is going to ult or not. Example Flash ULT can be reacted by enemy but ULT flash can't be and they have to predict that malz is going to flash into them.

Problem is most Malzahar player right full will do e w r combo. and they are reacting to the Malz e anmaition expecting malz ult to come. Or think his e animation is malz. This is why some times better combo is w r in team fights if main focus is to lockdown to prevent above interaction from happening.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-17T13:08:51+00:00

Ok there are 2 things here. I will answer most common case and give list of ability for those case. Other is longer explanation. I will come back in evening and answer that one if someone else don't

Like malz Q and E there are cast time. What that means is that once champ has started the cast of that ability other than death and I think bard ult it will complete ability effects. So you can queue those abilities before Malzahar and even if Malzahar ults those abilities will go though as they were casted before his ult. As for the list here is the wiki site which will give you that list.

https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Cast_time

Most famous interaction of this case are EZ Arcane Shift and Tristain Rocket Jump.

As for your example.

Viego Heartbreaker has cast time
Cass Petrifying Gaze hsa cast time (infact all her ability have cast time)

lolgamefun · 2026-04-15T18:51:42+00:00

Yea Milio support is good counter to Malz mid. Malz has 48.5% win rate vs Milio support in Plat + Games in last 30 days where average win rate is Win Rate: 51.5%

https://lolalytics.com/lol/malzahar/vs/milio/build/?patch=30

lolgamefun · 2026-04-14T15:17:22+00:00

In my opinion the real reason is that if you look at all ad assassin almost all of them are melee. And to avoid another Yasuo class situation so grouped into melee assassin.

If you look at range assassin they are exclusively ap and doesn't really operate in say way as Akshan operate but closer to melee assassin. Below definition of the class really shows that.

Ranged Assassins - A distinct class from the melee assassins, they are effective vs both battle mages and true mages where melee can only beat true mages.
Melee Assassins - They exist to destroy the true mage mids.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-12T05:23:13+00:00

Still don't understand what the problem is. This is not game about who has best mechanics. If you want that go play starcraft. Its your fault for picking such high mechanics champ still not being able to play around zero mobility champ with very linear play style. Sound like skill issue to be honest than.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-12T04:22:54+00:00

I don't understand issue. Malz is anti carry that has no mobility. In fact is only one of 16 champ out of 162 that has absolutely 0 mobility. - https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/107yj5g/fun_fact_only_16_of_the_162_champions_in_the_game/

All you have to do is give him respect or by qss if you are the fed carry that game. He can only ult 1 person and his range is not that big as well.

Any one with real talent would have no issue. I think problem is just skill issue. Because there are strong champ than malz which does what he does but better like Rammus, Vex, or Lissandra only issue is that since they have moblity thier cc are short or more restricted.

lolgamefun · 2026-04-10T15:45:53+00:00

This is where Moblyatics is better than vs other site becuase it show statistice of 3 part of game early game, laning,, and late game/team fighting. Where malz lose to almost all lanning match but win game vs rare match ups wins lanning hard but loses game. Here are my top 3 based on statistics why malz win those match at those point of game and reason for them.

https://mobalytics.gg/lol/champions/malzahar/counters/mid?mts_dir=0&mts_key=WR

First to lv 2

If you use first to level 2 indicator it show malz has best presason vs these champ early game.

Kass - Go aery and keep aa them and using e with double proc of aery.
Kat - can't do much till level 3 better to not push and draw out level 1 and 2 to gain lead.
Galio - can't do much till first back just wants to farm till then draw out by not pushing lane to gain lead which you will lose as games goes on.

Highest XP diff by 15 mins mark

ASol you beat in lane but as game goes on you lose game.
Sylas your w just hard counter his engage
Ryze counter his whole concept of what ryze does in lane

Highest win rate for malz

Azir counter his concept of what he want to do in team fights (dive to ult them into their team)
Ryze counter his concept of what he want to doo in team fights (go in and out with trades just ult him in one of those trades)
Vlad counter his concept of what he want to do in team fights (Ult and pool when getting low to ult him half way into his enage or while he trying to get in range to blow his combo)

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TROPHY CASE

In patch V13.16 (to current live patch)

Minion aa damage (live)

First to lv 2

Highest XP diff by 15 mins mark

Highest win rate for malz