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Diamond Jungle Malzahar - The Void's Legion [26.17]

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Hello, I really liked your guide and I would like to publish it translated into Portuguese with your permission, I will do it and I would give you all the credits

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Sure go for it!

Its because of this amazing work that I joined Mobafire. Thank you for your detailed guide!

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Such kind words, thank you! I'll do my utmost to keep this updated. Sometimes I've let it fall into stagnation but no longer.

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Any chance you update this build soon since Moonstone rework and/or Mythic removal ?

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Late reply but I spent last night going over Malzahar's build for the new season! It will take me some time to figure out jungle strategy however as the meta shakes out some. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbwM-ExFKsU

This is legit

I love this guy

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The skill choice for leveling up is all wrong for this. You start with visions, then swarm because they attack whomever has visions, then end with void because void resets visions. You get almost double the damage from it. Many times visions is almost back up when it finally wears off. You start with visions, then void, then swarm at level 2, then max visions, and then void.

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If you mean for the first clear, Call of the Void deals substantially more DPS than Visions does.

Call of the Void (Rank 1): 70 damage, 6 second cooldown = 11.66 DPS (multiple targets)
Malefic Visions (Rank 1): 80 damage, 15 second cooldown = 5.33 DPS (10.66 with reset)
Void Swarm (Rank 1): 70 damage, 8 second cooldown = 11.3 DPS (single target)

For clearing camps, Call of the Void is absolutely the highest DPS, even when accounting for the Malefic Visions reset and even assuming you don't let voidlings die at all (though often they tank camps a bit). Note that Voidlings also only deal 300% bonus damage to minions, not monsters, and will target nearby monsters even if Malefic Visions is not on them.

After the first clear, Call of the Void still matters more because the silence scales with rank and its AOE DPS continues to mathematically outpace Malefic Visions against camps. Further, at just 50 Ability Haste, it's possible to permanently keep up Malefic Visions on a single-target with just Call of the Void anyway, since it hits 4 seconds at that point which perma-refreshes Malefic.

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I wish you can make a guide for Malzahar for URF (Ultra Rapid Fire), because he is so unbeatable and if anyone follows your guide for URF? It will be literally done for the enemy team x'D
Thank you so much for the effort you are putting in these guides :>

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I never thought Malzahar was a viable jungler, I'll give it a shot!

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I now actually want to try this build.

What about the recent scuttle changes? Do I just do scuttle crab last because by the time it spawns I have already cleared my way to topside jg.

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I'm still experimenting with various clears. Right now I'm doing a full jungle clear (Blue, Gromp, Wolves, Raptors, Red, Krugs) and just skipping the scuttle entirely, unless it's free for taking.

This might not be ideal though hence why I haven't updated the guide. I'll have to consider more options first.

update runes for s8?

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FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, AN UPDATE ARRIVES

Hey Aqua. I tried AD Malz jungle and while it definitely does melt objectives, with the new AD scaling only off of bonus and not total is it more viable to just build AP on him?

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Yo! So there's still a lot of reasons to prefer AD over AP, but to keep this succint, let's put it this way:

1. There is no way to reasonably itemize for AP, CDR, Magic Pen, and CDR on a jungler's budget. By about 17 minutes in game, a standard game will usually have me with only Tear, Lucidity Boots, and Warrior Enchant. On an AP build, that means you won't even hit 100 AP, and you'd have to give up on either CDR or magic pen. To even just throw Liandries and Rylais on top of that stalls the CDR even more, probably won't be finished until like 30 minutes, and still won't be that much damage anyway.

2. CDR is the the stat that determines how quickly you kill camps, take objectives, and get ults for ganks. Damage is nice, but it also isn't as useful for clearing camps.

3. You absolutely need Tear for the jungle. Morellonomicon isn't an option because Last Chapter just isn't enough mana for the number of camps you have to clear and how mana-intensive objectives are.

There's more, but hopefully this serves as a primer.

Thanks for the tip! I was also experimenting with a hybrid build of going double tear. Still building manamune, lucidity boots and warrior enchantment, but after that going for Seraph's embrace, possibly rod of ages and Rabadon's for that extra mana and ability power. The extra mana gives muramana some extra attack damage while also allowing Archangel's Staff's passive alone to grant over 100 ability power. You end up with a nice amount of ability power to scale well without having to sacrifice early game objective damage.

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