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Vapora Dark In-Depth Mid Malzahar Guide 9.22 Season 9

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Very good and descriptive.

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Thanks! <3

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Vapora, what's your opinion on Archangel's Staff vs Luden's Echo?

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They're probably about the same, neither of them have any particular synergy with .

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I am beggining to play Malzahar and I find this guide really useful.

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Thanks for the update! I was waiting for it. Looking forward to read about the new the items pics but I know that it might take time because they're so many.

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I really want to see a guide up to date with the recent patch. I recently went 17/5/6 with him and want to continue playing.

(626) |

Yep, that'll be coming soon.

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I've seen people using too on Malzahar, but personally I prefer . It's a bit more consistent which pairs better with his damage over time. Still, it's a matter of preference, I guess.

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I've been using this runes, items and tips from this guide so far and they're great. Thank you for your hard work.

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Great guide, the only part that I disagree with is not bringing Transcendence. If you're going to bring Cosmic Insight and go to 35% CD, I would trade the 3% move speed for the extra 10% CD to hit 45%.

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It's hard to determine which is better between 2 entirely different stats just on paper, so I'll just show which one brings better results.

Also if you go , blue buff or will already take you up to 45% CDR. But reaching the top of the CDR cap isn't very important, what's important is just having a decent amount of CDR, but it's not necessary to fully max it out just for the sake of having as much as possible.

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Your build and my build already use Ionian + Morell which brings the build to 35%. Personally, there isn't an item in the build that I would be willing to give up for an hourglass and I don't like relying on blue buff as junglers don't share the way they used to.

In terms of the picture you posted, I find it very interesting and surprising; however, the pick percent is 8% higher. It's likely that any new malzahar player attempts to play with Transcendence lowering the overall win rate. I guess it comes down to preference, personally I enjoy being able to put my E on multiple members of their team and having the comfort of knowing my ult is up every 32 seconds instead of adding 11 move speed from Celerity.

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It's likely that any new malzahar player attempts to play with Transcendence lowering the overall win rate.

That doesn't make sense though, most of Malz's games would come from people who are frequent Malz players rather than people just trying him out. And why would new players flock onto what's supposedly a better rune and drag its winrate down, while experienced Malz players flock onto a supposedly worse rune and drag its winrate up? Surely it would work the other way around?

is just subtly a super good rune to run on any champion. It's not just , almost every champion that can afford to spec into Sorcery shows a high winrate with , always higher than that of , even on champions who actually benefit a lot from CDR. Even champions that need CDR more than Malzl does still want ; plus has innate synergy with in that extra movement speed makes it easier for him to reach a target for , which is more useful than being able to cast 8 seconds sooner since you're not generally casting it the moment it comes off cooldown anyway and team-fights very rarely last long enough for you to use it twice in the same fight.

Like I said, it's hard to judge how good is because a small increase in movement speed is such a small thing that doesn't visibly affect gameplay in any way, but the stats show that it's by far the best rune for its slot, for and for any mage.

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I was looking at the experienced players being more split between the two ( and ) and the newer players being more heavily into creating the higher play rate: which is simply an assumption that has no merit.

But you are right about it being hard to judge just how good is. I've been using it a lot lately when I ADC and I do feel the slight speed difference impacting my gameplay; definitely when meshed with .

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