Malay are one of, if not the best, arena civs in the entire game.
The pocket meta is to play as a civ with population efficient, mobile units. Neither of these things support the Malay. Just as they didn’t support the Khmer. You tend to read something, completely forget what was written, then do a 180 and tell people what they said, which is why you get into flame wars, so let me go back and remind you what I said:
Nothing about Malay in Pocket. Everything about Malay being clearly superior to Khmer, which is, by comparison, a laughable pocket civ that the forums were complaining about because the forum goers are bad. Everything to do with Malay being absolutely, ridiculously overbuffed, and it’ll only be a matter of time before the reasonable players figure it out and they’ll be in dire need of nerfs.
Everyone clear on how he totally, completely lost the plot, and decided to be prickly about it? Good. Go ahead and keep being prickly about it.