Malzahar

the Prophet of the Void

MidPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

47%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

722

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport
86%47%623
Flash + Ghost
6.4%—46
Flash + Ignite
5.3%—38

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
45%45%328
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
44%49%321
Sapphire Crystal, Refillable Potion, Stealth Ward
3.2%—23

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Rylai's Crystal Scepter
28%49%200
Blackfire Torch → Rylai's Crystal Scepter → Liandry's Torment
18%52%128
Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Shadowflame
4.4%—32

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
70%48%506
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
21%49%152
Boots of Swiftness
3.5%—25

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Zhonya's Hourglass
7.9%63%
Rabadon's Deathcap
5.4%—
Shadowflame
3.6%—
Void Staff
2.6%—

Fifth item

Rabadon's Deathcap
2.4%—

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Malefic Visions → Call of the Void → Void Swarm

84%50%606

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q			Q					Q		Q		Q	Q
W		W												W	W		W	W
E	E			E	E		E		E
R						R					R					R

E › W › Q5% of games— win

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.