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Malzahar build, with receipts

What Malzahar ran in 79,580 Mid ranked games on patches 16.1-16.12. Every line carries its own game count.

Banned in 12.9% of 1,102,922 ranked matches.

The finished core

• Blackfire Torch then Liandry's Torment then Rylai's Crystal Scepter: 55.5% over 12,093 games
• Blackfire Torch then Rylai's Crystal Scepter then Liandry's Torment: 55.4% over 6,315 games
• Malignance then Liandry's Torment then Rylai's Crystal Scepter: 54.3% over 3,246 games
• Blackfire Torch then Liandry's Torment then Shadowflame: 55.2% over 2,085 games
• Malignance then Rylai's Crystal Scepter then Liandry's Torment: 54.1% over 848 games

First finished item

• Blackfire Torch: 50.9% over 37,485 games
• Malignance: 50.0% over 10,221 games
• Liandry's Torment: 50.5% over 2,387 games
• Archangel's Staff: 47.9% over 885 games

Boots

• Sorcerer's Shoes: 51.3% over 38,536 games
• Ionian Boots of Lucidity: 51.2% over 8,305 games
• Mercury's Treads: 49.3% over 1,348 games

Starting shop

• Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion: 50.6% over 43,111 games
• Health Potion + Health Potion + Tear of the Goddess: 49.4% over 3,495 games
• Sapphire Crystal + Refillable Potion: 53.4% over 1,432 games

Skill max order

• Max E first: 50.6% over 77,845 games
• Max Q first: 52.9% over 765 games
• Max W first: 45.3% over 161 games

Runes

Most played full page: Deathfire Touch — Sorcery: Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch + Inspiration: Cosmic Insight, Magical Footwear; Adaptive force / Adaptive force / Health. 50.2% over 18,833 games.

• Deathfire Touch: 50.5% over 40,112 games
• Arcane Comet: 51.7% over 21,829 games
• Summon Aery: 49.3% over 16,319 games
• Dark Harvest: 46.8% over 442 games

Rune trees

• Sorcery + Inspiration: 51.0% over 58,581 games
• Sorcery + Precision: 49.1% over 14,400 games
• Sorcery + Domination: 50.1% over 3,812 games

Stat shards

• Adaptive force / Adaptive force / Health: 50.4% over 64,761 games
• Adaptive force / Adaptive force / Health scaling: 50.8% over 4,532 games

Summoner spells

• Flash + Teleport: 50.5% over 68,587 games
• Flash + Ignite: 50.6% over 6,911 games
• Flash + Ghost: 53.4% over 1,981 games

Win rates count the games where the item set got finished - the receipt for the completed build.