Top · 37 games · EUW

Malzahar

Top · 12% of games Mid · 83%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−139 gold), and still wins 57%.

Win rate: 56.8%; ±16.0 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #24 of 87
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 1.2%
Games: 37; ranked solo/duo

Malzahar top wins 56.8% of 37 ranked games in EUW, rank 24 of 87 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 10:48.

The build at a glance

What most Malzahar players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Blackfire Torch 10:57 · 86% · 30 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 12:54 · 68% of games

Item 2

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 17:35 · 50% · 13 games

Item 3 · late game

Liandry's Torment 23:48 · 13 of 22 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Inspiration 14% of games · 60% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 92% of games · 56% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 78% of games · 62% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Malefic Visions first 92% of games · 53% wins Skill orders →

When Malzahar wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′67% wins24% of games · 9

Lasts 25′ or more61% wins62% of games · 23

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Malzahar games

First Baron: 90% against 13%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 13% 90% +78

First blood 35% 82% +47

First dragon 33% 73% +39

First tower 36% 70% +34

Rift Herald 52% 64% +12

First Voidgrubs 71% 45% −26

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Malzahar plays

More control wards, fewer solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More control wards a game0.81 against 0.42 · +93%

Fewer solo kills a game1.2 against 2.2 · −47%

Fewer multikills a game0.27 against 0.42 · −36%

More assists a game6.7 against 5.3 · +25%

Less damage to towers7184 against 8717 · −18%

About average: gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:54

Item 2done ~18:42

Item 3done ~23:42

Item 4done ~29:00

Most common full builds

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Liandry's Torment 55.6%9 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Liandry's Torment › Rylai's Crystal Scepter 66.7%6 games

Malignance › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Liandry's Torment 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 67%9

Liandry's Torment 58%12

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion55.9%34

Cull100.0%1

Sapphire Crystal + Refillable Potion100.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~12:5456.0%25

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~12:3675.0%8

Boots of Swiftness ~14:5425.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport62.1%29

Flash + Ghost0.0%4

Flash + Ignite100.0%2

Skills

Max

W52.9%34

Max

Q100.0%3

Start

Q52.6%19

Start

W58.3%12

Dies about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Malzahar dies 2.3 times a game (average 2.4). 33% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 38% for the average top laner. 60% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.3deaths per game before 14′about average (2.4)

33%involve the enemy junglerless than average (38%)

40%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (48%)

84%with no teammate nearabout average (84%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Malzahar dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 54% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 17% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 67% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Malzahar

Kind of death

Malzahar Average

Gank 33% (avg 38%)Collapse 7% (avg 9%)1-v-1 60% (avg 52%)

Who gets the kill

Malzahar Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 2%)Jungler 24% (avg 24%)Support 1% (avg 3%)Mid laner 9% (avg 7%)Top laner 64% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 7:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Malzahar Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 7:00 and 9:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Malzahar; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Malzahar wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.8 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.3 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.3 K/D 14 / 50

Their half of top lane 0.8 K/D 18 / 22

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Malzahar wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 19% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 79% when Malzahar is there and 83% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 17:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 50% against 50%; for Malzahar it is 53% against 59%.

Malzahar

What most Malzahar players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 90% against 13%

More control wards, fewer solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Malzahar's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Malzahar

Ganks come at 7:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Where fights happen

Where fights happen