Malzahar

the Prophet of the Void

MidPatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

47%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

738

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport
82%48%607
Flash + Ignite
9.6%41%71
Flash + Ghost
5.3%—39

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
48%48%357
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
38%48%284
Sapphire Crystal, Refillable Potion
4.5%—33

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Rylai's Crystal Scepter
20%52%147
Blackfire Torch → Rylai's Crystal Scepter → Liandry's Torment
18%46%135
Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Shadowflame
4.6%—34

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
71%48%525
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
16%44%118
Boots of Swiftness
6.1%—45

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Zhonya's Hourglass
6.6%—
Rabadon's Deathcap
5.7%—
Shadowflame
4.9%—
Void Staff
2.4%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

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

88%49%646

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 › Q4% 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 38,148 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 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.