Malzahar

the Prophet of the Void

TopPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

58%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport
84%62%68

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
53%—43
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
38%—31

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blackfire Torch → Liandry's Torment → Rylai's Crystal Scepter
25%—20
Blackfire Torch → Rylai's Crystal Scepter → Liandry's Torment
23%—19

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
69%52%56
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
21%—17

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

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

84%60%68

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

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.