Malzahar Mid Build

Malzahar Champion Guide

Role: Mage

Lane: Midlane

Malzahar Mid performs best with a build featuring Blackfire Torch, Sorcerer's Shoes, Liandry's Torment, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Rabadon's Deathcap. The most effective rune setup for Malzahar Mid includes Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, and Scorch in the primary tree, paired with Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree.

Malzahar Champion Abilities

Void Shift

Malzahar skirts the line between dimensions, activating Void Shift after avoiding direct damage for 30 / 24 / 18 / 12 seconds. During Void Shift, Malzahar takes 90% reduced damage and is immune to crowd control. Malzahar loses Void Shift 0.25 second after taking damage from a non-minion source or blocking a crowd control effect. P

Call of the Void

Malzahar opens two portals to the void. After a 0.25 cast time and a 0.4 second delay, the portals fire projectiles which deal 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+55% of ability power) magic damage and silence champions for 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds. Q

Void Swarm

Malzahar gains a stack of Gathering Swarm when he casts other abilities (max 2). On cast, Malzahar summons a Voidling, plus an additional Voidling per stack of Gathering Swarm (max 3 per cast). Voidlings will fight nearby enemies for 8 / 8 / 9 / 9 / 10 seconds.

Voidling attacks deal 5-64.5 (at levels 1-18) (+0.4 per bonus attack damage) plus 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 / 20 (+20% of ability power) (+0.4 per bonus attack damage) magic damage (50% damage against monsters). Voidlings prefer to attack targets afflicted by Malefic Visions or Nether Grasp and deal 300% damage to minions affected by Malefic Visions.

Voidlings have 65-201 health, 16-50 armor and 8-25 magic resist (at levels 1-18). Turret and champion basic attacks kill Voidlings instantly, regardless of health. Voidlings have 400 movement speed and give a bounty of 2 gold when killed. W

Malefic Visions

Malzahar inflicts terrible visions, dealing 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+80% of ability power) magic damage over 4 seconds. Applying Call of the Void or Nether Grasp to the victim during this time refreshes the visions. If the victim dies, Malzahar gains 2% of his maximum mana and the visions spread to the nearest enemy. Malefic Visions will also execute any minions below 10-30 health. E

Nether Grasp

Malzahar suppresses a target champion for 2.5 seconds, dealing 125 / 200 / 275 (+80% of ability power) to the target and creating a zone of negative energy around them for 5 seconds, which deals 10 / 15 / 20% (+2.5% per 100 ability power) maximum health as magic damage over the duration to all targets in the Null Zone for the duration. R

Malzahar Summoner Spells

Flash

Flash is a location-targeted summoner spell that causes your champion to blink to the location in range of your cursor.

Teleport

Teleport is a unit-targeted summoner spell that blinks your champion to the target allied unit after a few seconds of channeling.

Teleport transforms into Unleashed Teleport after 10:00.

Malzahar Runes

Malzahar Items

Malzahar Ability Order

Malzahar Matchups Overview

Strong against

Vladimir

Ryze

LeBlanc

Zoe

Zed

Qiyana

Weak against

irelia

Twisted Fate

Akshan

Corki

Fizz

Diana

Malzahar Tips and Tricks

If you cannot get kills with your R in lane, push the wave and look to roam and make use of it elsewhere. In team fights, when the enemy engages, use your Ultimate R on the closest enemy champion. Alternatively, you can Flash R and catch an enemy who’s alone and too far forward. Your Passive shield has a very long cooldown in the early game, so you’ll have to play a little safer while it’s down.

The Best Malzahar Builds, Runes and Items for Mid in Emerald +

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Malzahar Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Summon Aery as your keystone, followed by Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, as well as Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Blackfire Torch as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Liandry's Torment. For your last 3 items, you should build Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Rabadon's Deathcap and finish with Morellonomicon. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 53.4% winrate over 16,203 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Malzahar Mid build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Blackfire Torch, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Liandry's Torment as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Rabadon's Deathcap and Morellonomicon. The skill order for this build is E - Q - W. In the current patch, this build has a 53.3% win rate over 5,206 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Summon Aery as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Malignance as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Liandry's Torment as a third item. You want to finish the build with Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Rabadon's Deathcap and Morellonomicon. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 51.3% win rate across 2,869 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Malzahar Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch as your primary rune tree, and Coup de Grace with Presence of Mind as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Archangel's Staff as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Liandry's Torment as third item. The last 3 options are Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance and Zhonya's Hourglass. The ability order for this build is E - Q - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 47.0% win rate over 498 matches played.

Situational Malzahar Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state, and your matchup to plan your Malzahar build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.