Hello everyone,
Today's lesson is going to be on the champion
I played the most recently and the rising op mid lane pick, Malzahar.
First off, our lane opponent is a Xerath
In this matchup, Malzahar usually struggles in the early laning phase,
I'll explain more about why that is as we go.
In terms of runes, Spellbook (Unsealed Spellbook) is what makes Malzahar broken right now
Spellbook reduces the summoner spell cooldown by 25%, then you add Lucidity Boots for another 10%.
This means you can cast your sums almost every three minutes and keep changing them as well.
I'm going to take the free stopwatch and boots along with the 5% extra CDR so I can get up to 45% total,
over here I take manaflow band then choose between celerity or scorch, I usually take celerity.
For summoner spells, I usually start with heal because you never know what will happen before first recall,
its safest to take heal not only for lane but also for the early 2v2 skirmishes.
Malzahar usually gets lane priority after getting 900 gold and buying lost chapter,
because it gives him consistent pushing power.
At that timing, I can then push out the lane
In this matchup, dodging skillshots makes or breaks the lane
and you have to generally avoid fighting in the early game as Malzahar
You also shouldn't push the lane because it exposes you to ganks
and your waveclear early on is not as good,
due to your voidlings all dying in one hit.
So because you can't fully push the lane,
its better to just not push it at all as Malzahar in the early game.
Let's go!!
And remember that it's not a 1v1 game, so you should pay attention to the enemy team composition,
the enemy jungler is Nidalee
and our jungler is Kha.
This matchup also very important,
because it helps you determine how you should play, whether you can safely push the lane
In this case, I think Nidalee has the upper hand early
so I'm going to play safe early
When Kha hits 6 and starts to get items, he can win against Nidalee so until then, it will be difficult.
And the top lane matchup is one where they will fight ,
so the game will swing one way or another depending on how that lane goes
Kha is also starting blue to look out for top lane as well
When you start, its important to see where the opponent is starting as well.
Make sure to avoid Xerath's abilities when possible
Xeraths that use their abilities like this are going for line clear,
I'll take q this game then
I want to try and stop him when he's charging but…
Let's grab all the minions we can here
If the lane is pushed into tower, mid lane champs often struggle to farm
Since our minions are here, I'll hit him
There wasn't any other option there…
I'll clear this then back, since I can change to Teleport.
It doesn't matter a ton that I have to back,
this is why Malzahar is considered broken right now.
Even though I take teleport, I can push the lane again later
Even though I take teleport, I can push the lane again later
If you aren't in a position to back up other lanes, don't try to force because you often get cut off yourself.
Only go if you can,
I'm going to back and come back quickly with TP.
To get lost chapter quickly, I'm gonna get a sapphire crystal
To get lost chapter quickly, I'm gonna get a sapphire crystal
Buy potions as well…
Now Xerath will have trouble with his recall timing
I'll stop his recall here,
it's important to stop recalls whenever you can so he can't recall comfortably.
Let's start pushing this in
Gonna put a ward here, since Nidalee is bot side right now
I'm gonna keep pushing this here, push and disappear, push and disappear
Right now, Xerath has to use his abilities or autos to clear my voidlings
He's trying to back right now, I'm gonna move to stop his recall
Since I have shield, I can stop his recall
Stopping his recall like this is big because he can't find a good time to recall.
And wait until his abilities are gone,
then use your voidlings
If he doesn't use his w on them, I get to push the lane
He used his abilities on me.
Xerath has to choose between hitting me and killing the voidlings
I'm gonna keep stopping his recall if I can
I don't think he will go back to base this time
if he does I get a huge advantage
He's here to try and get a recall timing for Xerath
This is a big advantage now because they are sharing experience while I get solo experience
I'm gonna see if I can cut his recall again.
I'm gonna push this and recall again, the recall timing is really important
Now you can see how I'm ahead in levels, Xerath is still only 5 while I hit 6
Okay, I'm going to recall now.
Let's buy a pink here
Since TP is on a 50 second cooldown, I'm gonna repeat what I did
and try to stop Xerath from recalling at a good time.
Blue was taken for sure
These days, since mid laners have manaflow band,
they can sustain themselves for quite a long time.
I'm gonna put a pink here
Xerath's right here
I'm gonna quickly push mid here.
Oh, okay okay.
We got him
I'm gonna let this go, bye bye~~
Wait, our blue is naturally gonna get stolen on the way out…
Xerath has no sums, if I ult it's practically a guaranteed kill
If Malzahar is holding onto ult,
the opponent can't step forward to harass, which is why he can push endlessly
I'm gonna move toward bot lane a bit, oh he died
Gonna return to lane and push it out now
I'm gonna back again after pushing this out
I'm gonna save TP here, because I can get the cs anyways without using it
And when you're playing Malzahar, you have to ping your flash and ult cooldowns,
and also call for assistance at mid to snowball.
You have to be a bit greedy when playing Malzahar
When you play farming champs like Xerath or Orianna, you don't have to call your jungler,
but a snowball champion like Malzahar needs to
Right now, their bot lane and jungler are missing
Gonna clear this out here
This guy is trying to kill my voidlings quickly
Ping so the team knows that mid has no flash
I'm gonna try waiting here
Gonna look for an opportunity here
This is basically a free kill here
If Xerath doesn't have flash, he has to keep dying
Let's hit the tower here
Nice, one more shot…
close..
I'm gonna upgrade to CDR boots quickly, now I have 3 minute cooldowns on my summoner spells
TP 3 minutes, Flash 3 minutes,
while the enemy has 5 minute cooldowns
Going to start snowballing here, 40 seconds left on my ult
Going to pressure here, since he isn't backing off, his jungler might be near
If they don't back off like this, the jungler is very likely close
But he wasn't there this time…(?)
Guys, I have 8 seconds on my ult
I'm gonna have to go for backup here.
He died
Gonna try waiting here
Oh they knew we were here?
I think the spear was on a whim but… let's leave
Okay
we got him
No heal
Um… bot is being taken a little too fast right now
Another good thing about voidlings is
that when you're taking towers,
they can take aggro and tank around three shots for you. Really helpful
Just took tower
gonna clear one more wave and leave
It's always best to clear all the waves before leaving,
but sometimes that might not be the case
In an unsafe situation, its better to just leave immediately or call the jungler over to help
I'm gonna back here,
grab Morello and keep snowballing.
Think the game's gonna be decided on the mid and top lane snowball, since bot lane hasn't died too much right now
Gonna sell this and grab a pink,
pinks are really good for solidifying leads as well
Holding onto TP, let's ping cooldowns again
Since Malzahar is a playmaking champion, its important to ping your cooldowns continuously.
The enemy team doesn't really have a solid tank
we don't either
This is the timing where people get picked most often,
after mid 1st tier is pushed and people need to walk up to waveclear
He's dead here
If you come in recklessly like that, you get caught
Block Tahm Kench's tongue here
This is when people get caught, when 1st tier turrets are gone
The reason is that people want to clear waves faster
and recall, so they walk up the lane and get picked
Because of that mindset, people get caught and wonder what's happening, possibly even blaming others
This is why we need to be careful, focus until the end
If you have a ward, it's good to ward right where I'm standing now
Now I'm gonna clear
and move toward the lane where we have priority
Going to put a pink down here in the enemy jungle
10 seconds on ult
Let's kill Gnar here
Don't need to ult here
Let's hit the tower
Since I have Teleport here, I can rotate mid if the enemy comes mid
Okay, let's go mid here
I can defend this, I can defend this.
I think we can start a fight here
Always erase pinks when you see them
Use Flash early
Our teammates had no cooldowns there
So close
Still, we got a lot of tower advantages there because all the aggro was on mid lane
Going to switch to Ghost here, since its more useful during teamfights
Always check the lanes like this
This is a pushing lane, so you need help if you're going to go to this type of lane
If you go alone, you die like this
I'm going to go to a lane that's bouncing back
Camille's going there, so I'm gonna head mid actually
Since bot is pushed against us, let's give that to Jhin. I'm going mid
Now, to continue the snowball, you have to move toward the next objective that's coming up
Since baron is up in 3 minutes and dragon is in 4, I'm gonna move toward baron
Play around the baron vision here, make sure we have priority
Wait until Jhin pushes up
I should actually go to a side lane during this timing, Camille died here…
Camille needs to go bot lane
Let's get out
they had people coming.
How many wards are here, I keep erasing them
Gonna back here
Let's send Jhin mid
I'll upgrade this and buy another pink
Now I want to talk a bit about trinkets
The red and yellow trinkets are great when you are winning
because the enemy team can't erase wards easily
The blue trinket is better when you are losing, because it prevents facechecking blind spots when you are behind
10 seconds on Flash, we need to erase all the wards here
Gonna move toward here Nice, we got him
Let's keep grabbing all the vision here
Baron is in one minute
let's try to initiate a fight here
Pretend like we're hitting the turret…
The voidlings here…
Let's back
Erase all the wards
Gonna use Flash quickly
Don't save Flash, saving it loses you the game
Use it quickly, since its only a 3 minute cooldown anyways
Traded Flash with Gnar, that's not too bad…
Gonna look here a bit,
Xerath is still far Let's back up a bit
Looks like two will be coming mid
Xerath is top, for now it's a 3v3.
Wow that hurts, let's back right now
They want to fight? I have to back though…
The teamfight call was a bit off…
They might go baron right now?
They got distracted by the kill, let's clear this quickly
Nidalee and Ezreal are coming mid.
I'm going to sell this and get Rylai's quickly.
Let's give up Dragon and grab the wave
There's a CS and level advantage for mid and top
We need to distribute the lanes well, Camille needs to keep going bot
Since objectives are up right now…
Gonna clear this and grab the vision here
Always ping stuff like this for your teammates
Check Camille's Teleport as well
One more wave here
Since our team's wave is there, the enemy wave will be at the same position
Nice, we caught Nidalee
I think we can go baron right now
Let's fight using TP here
Gonna get ready for a teamfight here
Gonna pick off Gnar first here
Dodge that
I'm going to back quickly and come back
Nice, it's basically over now
Take baron, take baron
Since we have a man advantage, its hard to lose that fight no matter how we play it.
I'm gonna quickly push this empty lane
Nidalee's going to come, we need to get baron quickly
One person should block Nid, Shen Nidalee Onur!
Gonna push bottom lane here
Gnar is up in 4 seconds, he died without using Flash
Going to go bot here
Like I said before, my summoner spells keep coming back up
I'm going to push one more wave, since the enemy is around there
I can leave quickly
Oh, are you alone?
I didn't think of Tahm ult, my bad
I needed to use my voidlings to block the Tahm q there
I got exhausted there too
Don't get caught like I did there
I got caught so I could show you guys what not to do, haha (??)
Let's switch to Teleport here, since we don't know when a fight will break out.
Since one person died on our team, the enemy will be looking for a fight as well
The enemy will see that I changed to Teleport in chat,
but if they are focusing on the game, they might not notice it
I'm going to clear top, since I have Teleport
In this case it's better to change to TP
Let's whittle down that tower using the TP advantage
Let's clear that back wave all at once
The CS is delicious
I'm going to push this
Keep checking the lane distribution
Tahm Kench is bot, two at mid
Their two waveclear members are at mid
They start fight, try to get out if you can…
Okay, let's leave since Camille is pushing bot and Gnar came here
I'm going to push top again
One person go to push mid
Bot needs to take care now
Let's make the enemy constantly rotate
16 levels on ult
Coming mid now
Since Flash is 25 seconds, let's ping it for my team
We got Ezreal's QSS
Let's push bottom now
Going to silence here and ult
Using Flash now, huh?
That didn't kill him?
Ezreal silenced
This is a bit dangerous, we need to leave now
I'm the only consistent damage right now
Going to kill this guy
Silence them
Going to back off now
I'm gonna come back with Teleport, Nidalee's right there
Nice, I'm gonna TP back
Void Staff
gonna switch to Ghost as well
We might have to give Dragon… never mind, we don't have to.
Going to push one wave here
since they can't hit Dragon right now anyways
Since the enemy has waveclear, its hard to finish the game
We need to fight at an objective, like Dragon or Baron
Always check the bushes
Two at mid, Tahm can come anytime as well
We need to fight at Dragon so we can end, after setting up the waves like this
Going to ward here for safety
And remember that Malzahar isn't slowed by the fruits because of the spell shield
Going to push bot now
Baron is in one minute
we need to get ready.
Going to grab blue
Let's bait them into Baron and fight, since they are a poke comp we need to initiate right away
Since our engage is really strong, we can initiate right away
I want to get one more wave… got level 17
Going to try and help here…
This is baron timing…
Can we taunt here? Got him
Since we got bot turret, this is fine now
It's probably better not to go there, they can see
Let's change to farsight trinket now
Nice, we pretty much won now
I'm coming, we can fight
Ezreal used QSS quickly, going to keep slowing them
Let's end, let's end
Gonna tank this for a bit
Let's try to end.
I don't think we can end
Too late…
Let's clear bottom
I think we can hit Baron right away
Start it, start it
I'm going to stop Nidalee
if she comes this way
Okay let's leave
Is Camille okay? I want to back…
No F Ezreal, no F
Xerath
Okay, let's end
Always pay attention to the primary carries during teamfights
Check if people have QSS or not as well
Okay, it's over now
Let's hit the turrets
There's always people that don't hit the turret to enjoy the game longer
but you might end up losing the game if you do that
So let's always hit the turrets
GG!
Damage graphs… Oh, I was first?
I guess the team composition meant
that I had to get first in damage
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