Bot · 36 games · NA

MalzaharBot build & runes · NA

Bot · 4% of games Mid · 89%Top · 7%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−673 gold).

Win rate: 47.2%; ±16.3 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.2%; ban 3.5%
Games: 36; ranked solo/duo

Malzahar bot wins 47.2% of 36 ranked games in NA. Most players finish Blackfire Torch first, at about 10:54.

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 11:16 · 100% · 32 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 13:48 · 69% of games

Item 2

Liandry's Torment 19:31 · 54% · 13 games

Item 3 · late game

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 25:12 · 11 of 27 games

Item 4 · late game

Shadowflame 29:42 · 3 of 10 games

Runes

Dark Harvest · Domination + Sorcery 14% of games · 80% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 81% of games · 41% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 69% of games · 36% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Malefic Visions first 97% of games · 49% 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.

Lasts 25′ or more38% wins72% of games · 26

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Malzahar's own win rate (47.2%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Malzahar games

First Baron: 77% against 30%

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

First Baron 30% 77% +46

First dragon 38% 60% +22

First Voidgrubs 38% 55% +18

First blood 43% 54% +10

Rift Herald 45% 50% +5

First tower 47% 48% +1

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 multikills

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

More control wards a game1.14 against 0.40 · +185%

Fewer multikills a game0.22 against 1.11 · −80%

Fewer solo kills a game0.3 against 0.7 · −54%

Less damage to towers4812 against 7436 · −35%

Less share of team damage18% against 24% · −23%

About average: minions.

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 ~18:18

Item 3done ~25:12

Item 4done ~29:42

Most common full builds

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Liandry's Torment › Rylai's Crystal Scepter 33.3%9 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Rylai's Crystal Scepter › Liandry's Torment 28.6%7 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 60%10

Liandry's Torment 50%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 Potion41.4%29

Sapphire Crystal + Refillable Potion80.0%5

Amplifying Tome + Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:4840.0%25

Plated Steelcaps ~17:42100.0%4

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport36.0%25

Exhaust + Flash71.4%7

Flash + Ghost100.0%2

Skills

Max

W48.6%35

Max

Q0.0%1

Start

W35.7%14

Start

Q64.3%14

Dies about as often as most bot laners

Before 14 minutes Malzahar dies 2.4 times a game (average 2.5). 28% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 36% for the average bot laner. 13% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.4deaths per game before 14′about average (2.5)

28%involve the enemy junglerless than average (36%)

87%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (88%)

42%with no teammate nearmore than average (35%)

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 bot lane

Ganks: 42% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 65% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 64% in your half of bot 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 bot laner

What kills Malzahar

Kind of death

Malzahar Average

Gank 28% (avg 36%)Collapse 59% (avg 52%)1-v-1 13% (avg 12%)

Who gets the kill

Malzahar Average

Bot laner 56% (avg 50%)Jungler 10% (avg 21%)Support 19% (avg 17%)Mid laner 12% (avg 10%)Top laner 3% (avg 2%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 8:00–10:00

Malzahar Peak Average bot laner

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Ward the river before 8:00.

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 bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.3 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

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

Their half of bot lane 1.3 K/D 23 / 18

The bot-side river 0.8 K/D 7 / 9

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 40% of their team's dragon takes (average bot laner 37%). The team wins 76% when Malzahar is there and 59% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 16:00 (average 15:00). Bot laners who get there by 14:00 win 54% against 47%; for Malzahar it is 55% against 44%.

MalzaharBot build & runes · NA

What most Malzahar players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 77% against 30%

More control wards, fewer multikills

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 bot laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Malzahar

Ganks come at 8:00–10:00

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

Where fights happen

Where fights happen