- Win Rate
- 50.9%
- Pick Rate
- 2.5%
- Ban Rate
- 13.8%
Illaoi vs Malzahar
- Patch
- 26.20
- Games
- 4,954
- Lane
- All Lanes
- Tier
- All Tiers
- Last Updated
- Oct 18, 2026 UTC
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
Illaoi vs Malzahar is a decisive matchup in LoL patch 26.20. Malzahar wins with a 63.6% win rate (+27.3%) over Illaoi based on 11 games. Malzahar holds the advantage in both the early and late game. Below you'll find the best Illaoi build, runes, laning stats, and strategies for the Illaoi vs Malzahar matchup.
Illaoi Matchup Breakdown
Use the dropdown to select an opponent and see a detailed breakdown of how Illaoi performs against them. You'll get head-to-head win rates, laning stats, the best build and runes for the matchup, and early vs late game analysis — all based on real ranked data.
Who wins Illaoi vs Malzahar?
Illaoi wins 40.0% of these games. With this many games the true rate is most likely between 16.8% and 68.7% (95% range).
- Expected
- 48.1% From both champions' overall Top win rates
- Matchup effect
- −8.1 pts Observed minus expected
- Sample
- 10 games Lane: Top
- vs patch 26.19
- — Not enough games on both patches
Lane: Top · Ranked Solo/Duo & Flex · North America server · All ranks · Patch 26.20 · Oct 11 – Oct 18
Key takeaways
- Only 10 Illaoi vs Malzahar games were recorded in the Top role on patch 26.20 — too few to say who is favored. Treat the numbers below as provisional.
How we calculate this
Games: ranked Solo/Duo and Flex games on the North America server from the patch shown. Remakes (games under 5 minutes) are excluded.
A game only counts when Illaoi and Malzahar played the same position on opposite teams, so roaming, lane swaps within a team or a champion merely being in the same game never count as this matchup.
The 95% range is a Wilson score interval. Confidence comes from how wide that range is: within ±3 points is very high, ±5 high, ±8 moderate, anything wider low. Below 20 games a matchup is not classified at all.
Expected win rate combines both champions’ win rates in this lane (same games and filters) with the log5 formula: E = A(1−B) / (A(1−B) + B(1−A)). Matchup effect = observed − expected.
"What changes" compares Illaoi's choices in this matchup with the same champion's other games in the same lane, and lists a change only when it is at least 3 points and statistically significant (two-proportion z-test, |z| ≥ 2, 20+ games).
Results are not split by rank: the sample per rank is too small for honest per-rank matchup numbers.
Illaoi vs Malzahar Laning Stats
Only 10 games have a 15-minute snapshot so far — the lane-phase numbers appear from 30.
Whole-game averages
Illaoi vs Malzahar Win Rate by Game Length
Illaoi's win rate against Malzahar by game length. The dot is the win rate, the bar its 95% range and the dashed line the champion's usual win rate at that length. Lengths with fewer than 25 games are left blank.
No game length stands out: Illaoi's results against Malzahar in short and long games are within the margin of error of each other.
Illaoi vs Malzahar Power Spikes
Who is ahead at each stage, measured from these games. A stage reads "Even" when the difference is inside the margin of error, and "Insufficient data" when there are too few games to tell.
- Lane (15 min)Insufficient data
- First itemInsufficient data
- Games under 20 minInsufficient data
- 20–30 min gamesInsufficient data
- 30+ min gamesInsufficient data
What Illaoi Changes Against Malzahar
Only 10 games so far — too few to compare what Illaoi players do in this matchup with their usual choices (needs 20).
Best Illaoi Build vs Malzahar
Usual Illaoi build (Top)
67.5% win rate · 77 games
Against Malzahar
Not enough matchup-specific build data: only 0 of 10 Illaoi games against Malzahar carried a complete build, which is too few to recommend an item path from. Use Illaoi's standard build instead.
Builds are ranked by the lower edge of their win rate range, not the raw win rate, so a build seen in a handful of wins never outranks a proven one.
Best Illaoi Runes vs Malzahar
Usual Illaoi runes (Top)
Grasp of the Undying
52.2% win rate · 1,798 games
Against Malzahar
Too few games for a matchup-specific rune page yet — use the usual page.
Plan your Illaoi draft in Draft Lab
Draft Lab lays out both teams lane by lane with live matchup win rates, damage profiles and game-phase lean, and suggests picks and bans from current meta data.
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Illaoi matchup data for League of Legends patch 26.20. The table below shows Illaoi's win rate, gold difference, and performance stats against every champion in the current meta. Click any champion name to see a detailed head-to-head breakdown including the best Illaoi build, runes, laning stats, and early vs late game analysis for that specific matchup.
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Illaoi vs Malzahar FAQ - Patch 26.20
Who wins Illaoi vs Malzahar?
Only 10 Illaoi vs Malzahar games were recorded in the Top role on patch 26.20 — too few to say who is favored. Treat the numbers below as provisional.
What is Illaoi's win rate against Malzahar?
Illaoi wins 40.0% of 10 Top games against Malzahar on patch 26.20 (95% range 16.8–68.7%). Based on both champions' overall Top win rates, 48.1% would be expected.
Does Illaoi counter Malzahar?
There are only 10 Illaoi vs Malzahar games in this lane on patch 26.20 — too few to answer reliably yet.
Who wins lane, Illaoi or Malzahar?
There are not enough games with a 15-minute snapshot yet (10) to say who wins lane.
Does Illaoi outscale Malzahar?
There are too few games of each length to tell yet.
When is Malzahar strongest against Illaoi?
On current data there is no stage of the game where Malzahar is ahead of Illaoi beyond the margin of error.
What should Illaoi build against Malzahar?
There are not enough games for a matchup-specific core, so use Illaoi's usual Top core: Death's Dance, Black Cleaver, Sterak's Gage.
What runes should Illaoi use against Malzahar?
Use Illaoi's usual Grasp of the Undying page (Resolve + Precision); there are too few games for a matchup-specific page.