Malzahar

Their Time is Short

Summoner Spell cooldown abuse for aggressive picks with Flash->[R].

Creative tools and rule bending

Unsealed Spellbook

Swap Summoner Spells while out of combat. Swapping to unique Summoner Spells will increase the rate at which you can make future swaps.
Perfect Timing

Gain a free stopwatch. Stopwatch has a one time use Stasis active.
Minion Dematerializer

Start the game with 3 Minion Dematerializers. Killing minions with the item gives permanent bonus damage vs. that minion type.
Cosmic Insight

+5% CDR
+5% Max CDR
+5% Summoner Spell CDR
+5% Item CDR

Empowered abilities and resource manipulation

Manaflow Band

Hitting enemy champions with a spell grants maximum mana.

After reaching 250 mana, Manaflow Band restores 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Transcendence

Gain 10% CDR when you reach level 10. Excess CDR becomes AP or AD, Adaptive.

Unsealed Spellbook allows you to heavily abuse your Summoner CDR with Lucidity Boots for aggressive picks with Flash->[R].

It also allows you to swap between Cleanse/Ghost and TP for when you need lane pressure.

Perfect Timing is a great rune in situations where enemy mid has dive potential on you and you want to make the out-play.

It also allows you to buy an earlier/cheaper Zhonya's or just sell off the Broken Stopwatch for the free gold.

Minion Dematerializer on Malzahar is great for empowering your ability to wave clear for optimal recall timing and roams to the side lanes.

The extra bit of CDR and Summoner CDR from Cosmic Insight even further enables your potential to abuse your short Flash cooldown.

Manaflow Band is incredibly strong for empowering your early-to-mid game push sustain

The bonus CDR granted from Transcendence is massively for empowering your mid-game teamfight control.

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