Malzahar Build Guide by Rermo99

Your passive creates a barrier around you that will block 90% of the damage dealt by enemy champions to you and provide you immunity to crowd control. This effects last 0.25s after taking damage by anything except for lane minion's damage. By cons, this barrier only come back after 30s - 12s without taking damage from champion or monster. Taking damage from them will reset the cooldown of your passive.

Your passive is the only reason you can escape a bit when you are in trouble, but it's also a big key for you to defeat some opponent. Most of the assassin want to all in as soon as they can, but they will have to wait for your passive to be gone to engage you. Also, if they come too close to you, you'll put them on purple fire.

Your Q open in a line ALWAYS perpendicular to you two portals that will shoot projectiles to the other portal after a short delay. The projectiles pass through every unit and silence every enemy they hit. By cons, wait is there a bad thing about this ability?

To be honest, the hitbox of his Q is broken. The hitbox is huge. It's one of the things the main Malzahar will abuse the most because the silence is really strong. Try to increase your capacity to land this spell first. It will be a huge bonus to your plays with him.

Your W spawns a voidling that attack any target close to him. It will automatically attack any target affected by your E or your Ult but prioritize target affected by your Ult. Also, for each other spell you cast before it, your W will spawn another voidlings, up to 2 more, resulting to a maximum of 3 at the same time. By cons, those cute little things are dead with only one basic attack or tower shot, and towers seem to like focusing them when they have to change target after killing a minion.

This ability is the best "summon" ability in the game. The voildings last after 8s or until killed, and the cooldown IS 8s and is even lower when upgraded to rank 3 and 5. Those little pets are really strong for many reasons.
You can use them as a meat shield to block skill shots (you monster). You can also use them to tank objectives for your teams like towers, dragons, barons and rift heralds. They can also attack towers. There's a little trick you can do when hard pushing with that fact. Just check out the "Malzahar and the cannon winion" chapter.

The most important is that you have them on the field when you ult an enemy because they add a HUGE amount of damage to your kit when ulting someone.

Your E is a "click-to-win" ability that burns your target forever for 4s and deals too much damage. Your voidlings prioritize the target affected by your E over targets not affected by anything and your E can be reset if the affected target is hit by your Q or your R. Whenever the target dies, you'll regen 2% of your maximum mana and it will go to another close target and the timer will be reset. By cons, if you put your E on a minion, sometimes in life, the minion moves, and the aids don't spread to another minion because he goes out of range, making you waste a huge amount of mana and drop a lot of tears.

This, THIS! It's the thing that gives cancer. It's the thing that kills every little Lamb, It's the one, the only Space aids! Your E is the cancer center of your combos, because the only thing you'll want is to keep it on your enemy for as long as you are alive, and even after you are dead! Your trick is to wait about 3s after you cast your E to cast your Q on the target. It will reset your E and you'll be able, 3s after this, to recast your E on the target and then continue the infinite cycle of life. Don't forget to make your minion spawn every time after casting your E.

Your R is a "click-to-win" spell that lock down the target forever for 2.5 second. It creates a zone that makes your opponents really salty deals max health damage to everyone in the zone and deals a huge amount of damage to the target. By cons, it also lock you down, so you are as vulnerable as the enemy you are looking deeply in the eyes.

This ult is better than you think. It deals so much damage, but also it can reset your E and automatically brings every voidlings to your target. My only advice for this ability is, use it to kill in early game and use it to lock down their carry late game in team fight. But pay attention to your opponents build, if they have a Quicksilver Sash, don't even think about ulting them, it would be a waste. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Early Game (Levels 1 to 6)

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Malzahar's early game is based on getting the fastest as you can your Lost Chapter. This item cost 1300g, this means you have to starts recalling at 1280g. Getting the Lost Chapter is very important for malzahar because he has a lot of big mana cost and cooldown early game. Since it gives now 10% CDR and a bunch of mana and mana regen (20% of maximum mana upon lv up), it will help you doing whatever you want to do after buying it.

Malzahar is really strong in laning phase, but if you want to max your efficiency, you'll need to farm with your abilities. Using the combo E on a minion > W > Q to reset your E, except for the first time you do it, you will ALWAYS have the maximum number of minion spawning from your W (1 stack with E, 2 voidling with W, 1 stack with Q, 1 stack with E, 3 voidling with W and then).
It will cost a lot of mana to do this (a LOT), so first you must be sure to kill every minion with your E on it, so it can spread on another minion and you can gain a bit of mana back.
That's why getting the Lost Chapter very quickly is important. You'll get 300 more mana from the Lost Chapter, and this will give you 6 more mana per minion kill with your E on it. More mana sustain is the best. You'll also get a bunch of mana each time you lv up, so you'll be able to stay in lane for as long as you'll be alive! The cream of the crop is that they added 10% CDR to the item, and this guide is based on a CDR/Mana sustain build. How convenient ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

All this will allow you to put huge pressure mid lane and you'll either prevent your opponent to recall, prevent them to roam, but also create a bunch of opportunities for you to hang out with your army of fluffy voidling (especially with Snowday Malzahar skin).

While you are in your early game, focus only on your farm, and if your opponent get caught by your E after killing a minion, you can try to hit him with your Q, but keeping your mana for farm is really worth before you hit 6.

Mid Game (10 to 25 minutes)

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It's here that the real fun begins for you and the nightmare starts for the enemy team. At this moment, you'll have 35% CDR. Yes, 20% with Archangel's Staff + 10% with Transcendence +
5% with Cosmic Insight. With this cooldown reduction and enough knowledge about Malzahar, you'll be able to let your E Malefic Visions forever on your opponent. Let me Explain :

Level 10, your skill point will be distribute like this (1Q, 3W, 5E, 1R). - E will have 7s Base CD; - W will have 8s Base CD; - Q will have 6s Base CD.

With your 35% CDR, it will be like this : - E will have 4.55s CD; - W will have 5.2s CD; - Q will have 3.9 CD.

Your E burns your target for 4 second and can be RESET if the target is hit by your Q or R. Let put it together. You hit your target with E and summon your voilding, wait ~3s, cast your Q, and hit. Your E reset, and has around 1s cooldown left. After 3s, you recast your E and your Q is already up to continue until you have no mana left. But with the Archangel's Staff, you'll have 25% of your mana spent refunded. Which means you can abuse even more of this combo.
It's really OP and you can also finish your target with your R, which also reset your E.

With the "Full damage Malzahar" rune page and item set, the combo will be the same, but you'll have to be more careful about it, because you'll have less mana regen and higher cooldowns. However, the huge damage spike you'll get from Electrocute, the Luden's Tempest and your Sorcerer's Shoes will be so high and funny that you won't even notice the differences in mana costs and cooldowns, because your opponent will die a lot faster.

Lets put the combos aside and let focus on your position. YOU'LL BE THE BEST TARGET FOR ANY GANKS FROM ENEMY JUNGLER. Why? Your pushing power is too strong and really hard to control. Also you are Malzahar. No ones want to fight a fed Malzahar.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what do you do when your lane is pushed and your opponent is staying undertower because you scared him too much time? It's called *Sparkles* Roaming~~~ *Sparkles*!!!

How to roam with Malzahar? Go to the Bot or Top lane, Ult someone. Your team will get the kill. You are happy. You can go back to lane.

There's more to your mid game. With the "CDR/Mana sustain Malzahar" runes and items, your CDR is enough high to do your infinite combo, you can litterally solo each dragons. You won't take any damage because your voidling will be closer to it than you, so they will tank the damage. The same is for the rift herald.

Late Game (30 minutes or more)

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At this moment of the game, you are supposed to have your core build completed ( Archangel's Staff, Rylai's Crystal Scepter and Liandry's Anguish). This means everyone melts when you are attacking them. But there's more to Malzahar's gameplay. Seriously.

Each ability you cast have it's own place in every team fight. Your game won't be resumed to burn anyone down.
First, your Q Call of the Void will be used to silence their mid laner while the fights begins and for as long as the fight is burning. You'll have a very low cooldown on it with all your CDR. Your ult MUST be kept for the ADC in team fights. But when the fight is about one team getting the Baron , always ult the enemy jungler so he won't be able to smite the objectives. If their jungle is already dead, then use your head to spot the most dangerous enemy before he make a heroic baron steal and ult him.

Your E will be your key ability to guide your voidling. Don't use it as your main source of damage, your main source of damage is your voidlings and you have to redirect them on the big damage of their team.

One last thing before we get to the next chapter. Your voidling may be very cute and strong, you'll have to use them as a meat shield. They can block so many skill shots and can save your life at anytime. They are your only best friend when you play Malzahar.
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The runes are basically what's gonna decides if you win your lane or not. And that is for any champion, not only for Malzahar mid. There is usually multiple ways to build your runes page for each champion, Malzahar is good either with Aery or Electrocute. That why he can be played with a bunch of different styles. Let's get to the point now. First, there are 5 different path you could take : For the first build of this guide, I selected Sorcery as my first path because Malzahar is very much dependent on his mana and on CDR. Going sorcery will brings a lot of mana viability and interaction to Malzahar and will helps YOU a lot in mastering the Void's favourite prophet. I selected Inspiration as my secondary path for the same reason, CDR and mana related content. Sorcery : Summon Aery : Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemy champions or shielding allies. Aery cannot be sent out again until she returns to you. Damage : 10-40 (based on level)(+0.1 AP and 0.15 bonus AD) Summon Aery While many think Malzahar is better with comet, I will say it's not true. Malzahar have his kit based around damage-over-time. Arcane Comet can occur one time every 20s to 8s, Summon Aery only need to come back to you before striking again. With your E, she will strike at the same time as the first damage, and then come back to you and, if you take her soon enought, she'll strikes again. This means, while Arcane Comet will deal, IF YOU HIT, 30 + 0.2 AP level 1 with one E, Summon Aery can't be dodge and will deal an amount of 2 time 10 + 0.1 AP. It's a bit less damage, but if level 3 you reset your E with your Q, Summon Aery will be able to hit up to 4 time while Arcane Comet won't hit again. Also, Summon Aery you can walk to Aery while she's returning to you to get her faster. This means that with only ONE E on someone who's trying to escape, you can, by chasing this chicken, hit about 3 time with Aery, dealing then more damage than Arcane Comet could ever deal. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Manaflow Band : Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana. After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds. Cooldown : 15 seconds Manaflow Band Malzahar's early game, at least with the way you'll play with this guide, is very hard when we talk about saving our mana. All his abilities have high mana cost for the number of time you'll have to cast them. So having more and more mana back from his E on each minion kill or assist affected by his E is really cool. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Transcendence : Gain 10% CDR when you reach level 10. Each percent of CDR exceeding the CDR limit is convertedto an adaptive bonus of 1.2 AD or 2 AP. Transcendence Malzahar have really high cooldown on his E and R. But there is a trick I talked about above that needs cooldown reduction to works. Being able to have E activated on an enemy for the rest of his life is really OP. Cooldown reduction IS one of the strongest things on Malzahar, and if you go with an Abyssal Mask in late game, you'll get free AP with this CDR. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Scorch : Your next ability hits sets champion on fire dealing 15 - 35 bonus magic damage based on level after 1s. Cooldown : 10 seconds Scorch Malzahar wants more damage, but he want it the faster he can. He don't want to be in the river to rekt butterflies and sparkles or to wait arounds 20 mins to get something interesting! He wants that bonus 15 damage on his first space aids of the day. Don't dissapoint him! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Inspiration : Biscuit Delivery : Biscuit Delivery: Gain a Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will at 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 and 12:00. Biscuits restore 15% of your missing health and mana. Consuming or selling any Biscuit increases your mana cap by 40 mana permanently. Biscuit Delivery First, THIS IS EPIC! Who will refuse to have free biscuit every 3 minutes in real life? Also, Malzahar has a mana regen passive on his E that restores 2% of his maximum mana everytime something die under his Malefic Visions. Getting this mana regen will first help you getting easier your Lost Chapter and the 40 bunus mana with each biscuit will allow you to get after the 4th one a bonus 160 mana, so close to 3 more mana per kill with your E. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Cosmic Insight : +5% CDR. +5% Max CDR. +5% Summoner Spell CDR. +5% Item CDR. Cosmic Insight CDR. CDR. More and more CDR. Really useful for Malzahar. For every mage. It's OP. Take it. Just, Take it. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) For the second build of this guide, I selected domination as my first path because Malzahar with busrt damage is really strong and also really annoying. Going domination will brings a lot of bonus damage to your combo that you won't necessary get with sorcery and it will helps YOU a lot in killing the Void's favourite prophet's enemies. I selected precision as my secondary path because you still need some mana back from your kills. And you know, more damage is more damage. Domination : Electrocute : Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities within 3s deals bonus adaptive damage. Damage : 30 - 180 (+40% Bonus AD, +25% AP) damage. Cooldown : 25 - 20s Electrocute Electrocute is the reason why every one will cry when playing against you. You think you need 3 separate attack to proc Electrocute? Not on Malzahar! One E and one Q and Zap! Tons of damage on your opponent. It is logical that it procs, because you hit with E, with Q and with the reseted E. Your ult also count as 2 separate attack with the continuous beam damage and the AoE damage. So basically, E+Q=Zap, E+R=Zap and E+W=Zap. It's a most for "Full Damage Malzahar".( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Cheap Shot : Damaging champions with impaired movement or action deals 10 - 45 bonus true damage (based on level). Cooldown : 4s Activate on damage occuring after the impairment. Cheap Shot True damage on Malzahar's ultimate. Why not? You already piss your opponent off with your 2.5 year... eh I mean 2.5s suppress, why not adding some true damage to it? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Zombie Ward : Takedown on enemy wards cause frendly Zombie wards to sprout from their corpses. Gain an adaptive bonus of 1.2 AD or 2 AP for every zombie ward spawned, up to 10. After spawning 10 zombie wards, additionally gain 10 adaptive force. Zombie wards are visible, last for 120 seconds and do not count towards your ward limit. Zombie Ward If you want to win take this. You'll have even more rewards after breaking an opponents ward. So unless you are really bad, you'll be able to avoid more enemy ganks! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Eyeball Collection : Collect eyeballs for champion takedown. Gain an adaptive bonus of 1.2 AD or 2 AP, per eyeball collected. Upon completing your collection at 10 eyeballs, additionnaly gain an adaptive bonus of 6 AD or 10 AP. Collect 1 eyeball per champion takedown. Eyeball Collection If you want to play really aggresive take this instead of Zombie Ward. You'll have to reach 10 takedown on champion to get the bonus AP. Don't think to put yourself in danger for that, assists also count as a takedown, and as a longtime Malzahar player, I konw well he's good at giving kills to his allies. Don't be greedy with this on kill, be greedy on damage!( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Ultimate Hunter : Your ultimate gain 5% reduced cooldown, plus an additional 4% per Bounty hunter stack. Earn a Bounty hunter the first time you get a takedown each enemy champion. Ultimate Hunter (8.11 new rune) This is the new Utlimate Hat. Seriously, what can you get better than this on a champions that 50% of his gameplay is about pressing R at the right moment? It will also force you to roam more than with the old Ultimate Hat. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Precision Presence of Mind : Takedowns restore 20% of your maximum mana or energy and increase your maximum mana by 100 (up to 500) or your maximum energy by 10 (up to 50). Presence of Mind There ain't no other runes you should take in the first or second row of precision. It litterally gives you a bunch of mana you'll need to sustain your lane and kill more people. Take it. Coup de Grace : Deal 8% more damage to champions who have less than 40% health. Coup de Grace You want damage. It gives damage. I know that Last stand could have been good too, but I prefer a lot more Coup de Grace, first because it is a french expression and I'm french, and then because I usually don't take a lot of damage with Malzahar, so I get better benefits from this one.

Spicy Shards :

This is a new thing that gives you the opportunity to choose some basic stats to start with in your games. This means you can now go with the runes above and still get a dang amount of resistance like armor and magic resist. Don't do it. I know you want to but don't.

Those are the shards you should take with Malzahar, no matter which build you are taking :

• 10 Adaptive (10 AP in your case)
• 10 Adaptive (10 AP in your case)
• 6 Magic Resist

Your two first shards are going to be the Adaptive one, because you will need that damage over that 1% CDR level 1, the 9% Attack Speed, or those Armor and MR stats.

At last, you are in mid lane, where a bunch of mages parties up to burst everyone in the enemy team. Especially you. But sometime they give that job to an AD champion, in which case you should take some armor instead.

Everything in this build is about saying "NO!" to your opponent. He wants to heal himself? NO! MORELLONOMICON! He wants to buy Magic Resist? NO! VOID STAFF! He wants to buy health? NO! LIANDRY'S TORMENT! He wants to escape? NO! RYLAI'S CRYSTAL SCEPTER! CDR/Mana sustain Malzahar Starting Item The Doran's Ring is your starting item. The doran's ring gives the little amounth of mana everyone like, the little amounth of HP that everyone lik... Nah seriously the only things that matter is that is gives you enought health to survive longer during your early game. While you still try to manage your mana, it will also help you giving you 5 mana per 5 seconds. Last hitting minions can also be difficult (kill me please) and doran's ring is the perfect item for that! First Back Lost Chapter is the most important item for your early game and the only item that makes malzahar viable early game. First of all, it gives you 40 AP. You are a mage. Yeay. Then, it gives you 300 mana. This means 6 more mana every time you kill a unit infected by your Malefic Visions. Also, it gives you 10% CDR, which is very good on Malzahar early game. It will help you doing your combo earlier in the game. Tear of the Goddess can be either your first item on first back or second item depending on your situation. It will be your first item if you are forced to back before you can get your Lost Chapter. By boosting your maximum mana by 250 to 1000 and by reducing the mana cost of your abilities, it will be perfect to come back on a bad early game with a huge advantage on the mana sustain and the laning farm. Your combo will be castable more and more time, and each time will increase your maximum mana. It a good item to get on Malzahar, and I strongly suggest to take it in a bad matchup or when a evil enemy jungle succeed at an early gank. Core Item Archangel's Staff is your first item. This item is the best first item for Malzahar because it gives the 4 thing you need on Malzahar: CDR, Flat Mana, Manacost reduction and huge amount of AP. Getting the 20% CDR of this item will get you with your boots, runes and level 10 to 45% CDR. It gives a starting amounth of flat mana of 650 mana. This means you'll get 13 more mana for every unit you kill while they are affected by your E. But don't be fooled by my basic maths, You also gain 8 maximum mana every time you cast a spell (max 3 time every 12 second) because it gains a mana charge every 4 second that is consume upon casting a spell and giving you 8 maximum mana. You'll end up with 1400 additionnal mana from this item. THIS IS A LOT. Finally, you'll get an amounth of AP equal to 1% (3% when transformed into Seraph's Embrace) of your maximum mana and a very nice active shield when it is transformed. Malzahar wants to bring the void's madness to everyone and for this, he will need to gives a lot of Malefic Visions to his enemy. Sorcerer's Shoes are really strong on him but I won't say they are the best. Ionian boots of lucidity are really strong on him, since they gives a huge amount of CDR and also summoner's spell CDR, that you also get with Cosmic Insight. Building those right after your Archangel's Staff will brings you, at level 10 with Transcendence, to 45% CDR, which is really broken level 10. This one is the most important item. Liandry's Torment burns your opponent for 1.5% of their maximum health each seconds, over 3 seconds. The burn damage is increase to 2.5% to any target with impaired movement (slow, stun, root, suppress). It will add a 2.5% of target's maximum health damage to each tics of damage on your E, your Ult and your voidling's AutoAttacks when matched with Rylai's Crystal Scepter. Also, it's passive increased your damage to up to 10% more damage when damaging an enemy champion. Since your E affect it's target for 4 seconds and that you can rest it with your Q and R, it is pretty easy to get the full damage out of it. It's the best damage focused item you can take on Malzahar. Rylai's Crystal Scepter is your third pick for the prophet of the void. Malzahar has no escape and he's very slow, but getting a Rylai's on him is really perfect since it procs the slow for 5s with your E and it will helps you chase enemy, escaping enemy and even tanking a bits because of the health it gives. Very good item on Malzahar. Late game Possibility Morellonomicon is a very interresting encyclopedia that will helps you learn about physics and chemistry and, nah i'm kidding ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) This tome has all you wants late game on Malzahar. It gives you the little amounth of magic penetration you need to piss off any squishies and it gives grievous wound to every enemy you hit with magic damage, which is very strong if you use your Q correcly. Zhonya's Hourglass is the best late game item you'll take with Malzahar. Can save you from Enchanted Crystal Arrow, Ace in the Hole, Whirling Death, Trueshot Barrage, Cannon Barrage, Curtain Call, Super Mega Death Rocket!, Requiem, Final Spark, Noxious Trap, Rite of the Arcane, Mega Inferno Bomb and Death Mark! You know, all the spells that make you cry everytime they kill you. It also gives a bit of armor to be stronger against their fed ADC. Full Damage Malzahar Starting Item The Dark Seal is a great starting item for full damage Malzahar because since patch 8.9, the Doran's Ring doesn't gives you the beautiful synergy with your E anymore. However, the Dark Seal is here to save the day with his 100 flat mana. It will get you to not far from 10 mana regen with your E at level one, which means if all the first wave died under your E, it is fully refunded. Also, you are going for damage here, so getting that extra AP from kills and assist just transform you a little more quickly into terminator. First Back Lost Chapter is the most important item for your early game and the only item that makes malzahar viable early game. First of all, it gives you 40 AP. You are a mage. Yeay. Then, it gives you 300 mana. This means 6 more mana every time you kill a unit infected by your Malefic Visions. Also, it gives you 10% CDR, which is very good on Malzahar early game. It will help you doing your combo earlier in the game. Sorcerer's Shoes is what you are going to take with this build because you don't care about utility. You want damage. You can even take them at your first back if you are against a Lux or Xerath. They are very strong to deal with squish champ, but against a Galio or Cho'Gat, I suggest to still take the Ionian Boots of Lucidity. Core Item Rylai's Crystal Scepter is your first pick for the prophet of the void. Malzahar has no escape and he's very slow, but getting a Rylai's on him is really perfect since it procs the slow for 5s with your E and it will helps you chase enemy, escape enemy and even tanking a bits because of the health it gives. BUT the point of picking it first is because you are greddy with full damage malzahar, and you have the rune Cheap Shot. Getting the rylai's right after your lost chapter will allow you to proc it on any ability you cast, and since the cooldown of that rune is 4s, you'll even be able to proc it twice by reseting your E with your Q on a target. Very good item on Malzahar, and very big synergy with Full damage malzahar. Luden's Echo is your main burst item for this build, but you'll have to take it as your second item because of the synergy between Cheap Shot and the Rylai's Crystal Scepter. Maybe you'll have difficulties with your mana, but taking the Luden's Tempest will bring you a higher bonus AP than the Archangel's Staff in early game, but it will also give you a very good additional damage on your abilities that you won't get with the other items. This one is the most important item. Liandry's Torment burns your opponent for 1.5% of their maximum health each seconds, over 3 seconds. The burn damage is increase to 2.5% to any target with impaired movement (slow, stun, root, suppress). It will add a 2.5% of target's maximum health damage to each tics of damage on your E, your Ult and your voidling's AutoAttacks when matched with Rylai's Crystal Scepter. Also, it's passive increased your damage to up to 10% more damage when damaging an enemy champion. Since your E affect it's target for 4 seconds and that you can rest it with your Q and R, it is pretty easy to get the full damage out of it. It the best damage focused item you can take on Malzahar. Late game Possibility Morellonomicon is a very interresting encyclopedia that will helps you learn about physics and chemistry and, nah i'm kidding ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) This tome has all you wants late game on Malzahar. It gives you the little amounth of magic penetration you need to piss off any squishies and it gives grevious wound to every enemy you hit with magic damage, which is very strong if you use your Q correcly. Void Staff is the item you'll take against tanks. There is a lot of things we can do when the enemy team got a lot of tanks. You can either AFK, Feed or buy a Void Staff. Tanks = Void Staff. That's simple. Just do it. It will not only helps you dealing with the enemy Yasuo who have bough a Mercurial Scimitar by shredding his magic resist by 40%, but it will also helps you deal with that full MR Galio. Hextech Gunblade is a must take when the game length is over 50 mins and that you are full build. Sell your boots and buy it. It's just one of the funniest item for Malzahar late game because the only AoE you have is the Nullzone under your ult. The 15% of damage convert to healing doesn't reduce to damage over time like your E. You'll get a lot of damage on your Winion because yes, they scale AP and AD, and you'll have a 5th ability called "Hextech Gunblade's active". Seriously a new ability that deals around 250 + 30% AP is always welcome in a full damage build. Rabadon's Deathcap helps you dealing damage. It gives you 120 +40% of your bonus AP in AP. It is a strong item for all mage, but the only reason why I usually keep it out of the build is it's price and build path. All it does is giving you a huge amount of AP, but it is super expensive and you build it from 2 Needlessly Large Rod, which isn't the item you'll look for while you are based on specific stats. Spellbinder will be a good pick against high range mage. They usually have a lot of poke, which means they will cast a lot of time, making this item to stack. Also, it's active not only gives you AP, but also movement speed, which can help you dodge some skill shots and get closer to them. It will also gives you a huge bonus damage on all of your ability late game and it is super easy to stack with your combo.

4th November, 2020 (19:04)

• "Intruduction" chapter has been updated!
• "Two Build, One Guide" chapter renamed "A Bunch of Builds, One Guide"
• "A Bunch of Builds, One Guide" chapter has been updated!
• "Strenght / Weakness" chapter has been updated!
• Added the skill sequence in the "Skill sequences and Explanation" chapter.
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

May 17th, 2020 (12:28)

• That's not the first update of 2020, I just forgot about the change log ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• Added a new line for core items at the top, and a new exemple of finished build.
• I'll be adding some truly usefull knowledge *sarcasm* about all that in the future, but not too far in the future.
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

November 20th, 2019 (20:53)

• Runes updated with the preseason
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

June 11th, 2019 (15:16)

• Hey cuties, I'm back ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ;
• "Runes" chapter has been updated!
• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been updated!
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

March 13th, 2019 (13:34)

• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20" chapter has been updated! From a long time!
• "Change log" chapter has been updated! From a long time too!
• God I have a lot to do in this guide, will be working on this for the next two week. For real.

December 5th, 2018 (18:44)

• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• "Special thanks" chapter has been updated!
• The cheat sheet has been updated!
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

November 13th, 2018 (17:54)

• Huge update on the visual aspect due to MOBAfire's new guide editor!
• All the chapter has been adapted to the new guide editor. Preseason update in sight!
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

October 12th, 2018 (11:00)

• "Summoner's Spells" chapter has been added but no content for now
• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been moved to the end of the guide, because it's less important than the other section (No I won't remove it).
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

September 30th, 2018 (11:10)

• Ahri, Anivia, Annie, Aurelion, Azir, Galio, Kindred, Talon and Kai'Sa threat level and matchup descriptions are now all available!
• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• "Change log" chapter has been updated!

September 12th, 2018 (10:58)

• "Malzahar and the Canon Winion" Added to the guide with only content. More VFX coming soon!
• Akali threats tips added!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

August 23th, 2018 (23:25)

• Added some new chapter that are going to be completed in the future.
• Some typo have been sent to the dark realms.
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

July 10th, 2018 (13:07)

• added a new chapter and changed the guide name so it is now more clear that the guides is talking about two build
• Guide properly updated to 8.13, Thanks to PsiGuard!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

May 22th, 2018 (19:39)

• Since a bunch of the [/columns] had mysteriously disapear in the guide script and were causing some bugs in the guide, I updated a bunch of chapter to be sure to put them back. Spooky.
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

May 3rd, 2018 (20:03)

• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

April 19th, 2018 (20:25) :

• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been updated!
• "Gameplay" chapter has been updated!
  • More specific gameplay tricks for both builds
• "Runes Reforged" chapter has been updated!
• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

Marsh 21th, 2018 (20:07)

• "Runes Reforged" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

Marsh 19th, 2018 (22:00)

• "Items"chapter has been updated!
• Cheat sheet now properly adapt to the current patch, thanks to Dzopilant!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

Marsh 18th, 2018 (15:20)

• "Items" chapter is currently receiving an updated! You can now see how it will look after the update!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

Febuary 23th, 2018 (8:20)

• Liandry's description updated properly to 8.4 changes. Thanks to Xepherox!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

Febuary 19th, 2018 (23:09)

• "Strenght / Weakness" chapter has been updated!
• "Gameplay" chapter has been updated!
• "Runes Reforged " chapter has been updated!
• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

Febuary 8th, 2018 (22:01) :

• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

Febuary 7th, 2018 (16:35) :

• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been updated!
• Mega update for AP Itemisation change on 8.4 begins now
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

January 21th, 2018 (13:21) :

• Item pick order updated
• PBE Nerfs added to "Nerf/Buff & Surrender@20" chapter
• Summoner's spell changed from Flash/Ignite to Flash/Ghost
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

December 21th, 2017 (18:37) :

• Added a Standard build to the guide. Not the core build tho.
• Name of the guide change from "Mortality is weakness~ Malzahar In-Depth Guide" to "Mortality is weakness~ CDR/Sustain Malzahar Guide"
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

December 14th, 2017 (11:34) :

• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

December 11th, 2017 (08:06) :

• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

December 8th, 2017 (00:32) :

• ­ "Introduction" chapter has been updated!
• Cheetsheet updated!
• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• The core build has been changed :
  • Sorcerer's Shoes have been replaced for Ionian Boots of Lucidity
  • Rabadon's Deathcap has been replaced for Abyssal Mask
  • Hextech Gunblade added as a "very late game" pssobility
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

December 2nd, 2017 (15:45) :

• "Items" chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

December 2nd, 2017 (01:48) :

• The Guide has been published!
• "Gameplay" chapter has been updated!
• "Runes Reforged" chapter has been updated!
• "Skill sequences and Explanation" chapter has been updated!
• "Special Thanks" chapter has been added!
• "Still in Progress" chapter has been added!
• "Source" chapter has been added!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

November 30th, 2017 (21:41) :

• "Gameplay" chapter has been updated!
• "Runes Reforged Chapter has been updated!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

November 29th, 2017 (16:08) :

• "Pros/Cons" Chapter now is named "Strenght / Weakness"
• "Skill sequences and Explanation" chapter has been updated!
• "Runes Reforged" chapter has been added!
• "Items" chapter has been added!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!

October 25th, 2017 (16:45) :

• The guide has been created, but still not published
• "Introduction" chapter has been added!
• "Nerf/Buff List & SurrenderAt20!" chapter has been added!
• "Gameplay" chapter has been added!
• "Pros/Cons" chapter has been added!
• "Skill sequences and Explanation" chapter has been added!
• "Change Log" chapter has been updated!