Maokai Build
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Maokai Build

Sap Magic
Bramble Smash
Q
Twisted Advance
W
Sapling Toss
E
Nature's Grasp
R
Tank
Tank
27/18
Win/Loss
<1%
Pick Rate
11%
Ban Rate

Matchups

Maokai is strong against
55%
54%
53%
53%
53%
Xerath
53%
Lux
53%
Pantheon
53%
Nami
52%
Bard
52%
Blitzcrank
52%
Nautilus
52%
Camille
52%
Lulu
52%
Thresh
52%
Senna
51%
Brand
51%
Swain
51%
Rakan
51%
Soraka
51%
Maokai is weak against
Janna
47%
Morgana
48%
Vel'Koz
49%
Leona
50%
Zyra
50%
Braum
50%
Renata Glasc
50%
Zilean
50%
Milio
50%
Shaco
50%
Rell
50%
Alistar
51%
Seraphine
51%
Soraka
51%
Rakan
51%
Swain
51%
Brand
51%
Senna
51%
Thresh
52%
Lulu
52%

Early Maokai Build

Summoner Spells
FlashIgnite
89%
151
Flash
6%
11
Flash
5%
9
Starter Items
Health Potion
2
World Atlas
86%
147
Health Potion
13%
22
Health Potion
2
<1%
2
Starter Trinket
Stealth Ward
74%
126
Oracle Lens
26%
44
Item
First
Second
Trailblazer
71%
115
Locket of the Iron Solari
10%
17
Frozen Heart
7%
12

Maokai Item Build

Support Item
Solstice Sleigh
59%
100
29%
49
3%
5
Item Buy Order
Two
Three
TrailblazerLocket of the Iron Solari
34%
39
TrailblazerFrozen Heart
14%
16
TrailblazerAnathema's Chains
5%
6
Core Items
Trailblazer
72%
123
Locket of the Iron Solari
37%
64
Frozen Heart
22%
37
Knight's Vow
14%
25
Abyssal Mask
5%
9
Anathema's Chains
4%
8
Hollow Radiance
4%
7
Redemption
3%
5
Kaenic Rookern
3%
5
Final Boots
Boots of Swiftness
58%
98
17%
29
16%
27
Final Trinket
Oracle Lens
96%
164
3%
5
Stealth Ward
<1%
1

Abilities

Spell Skill Priority
Bramble Smash
Q
Twisted Advance
W
Sapling Toss
E
81%
137
Twisted Advance
W
Bramble Smash
Q
Sapling Toss
E
6%
11
Sapling Toss
E
Bramble Smash
Q
Twisted Advance
W
6%
10
Bramble Smash
Q
Twisted Advance
W
Sapling Toss
E
Nature's Grasp
R

Runes

Resolve + Inspiration
Aftershock
Inspiration
Aftershock
Aftershock
Resolve
Resolve
Grasp of the Undying
Aftershock
Guardian
Demolish
Font of Life
Shield Bash
Conditioning
Second Wind
Bone Plating
Overgrowth
Revitalize
Unflinching
Inspiration
Inspiration
Hextech Flashtraption
Magical Footwear
Triple Tonic
Future's Market
Minion Dematerializer
Biscuit Delivery
Cosmic Insight
Approach Velocity
Time Warp Tonic

How to play Maokai

Maokai Maokai – the Twisted Treant – is based on our LoL Jungle Tier List on patch 13.24 a B-Tier Jungle Jungle champion. Based on ranked matches from summoners with a PLATINUM+ tier, Maokai Maokai has a win rate of 51.6%, a pick rate of 4.8%, a ban rate of 0.8% and an average KDA Ratio of 0.0, which shows that the Tank Tank is in a moderate spot in the current meta of season 13. If you want to learn how to play Maokai on your matches, keep in mind that this champion is mechanically simple to play in LoL. This Maokai guide will give you also an understanding on how to beat Maokai. The upcoming LoL Maokai Jungle Build is the most popular build picked by many Pros.

Pregame Build

In champion select you need to choose your Maokai Maokai runes and summoner spells. The best Maokai Jungle Runes 13.24 are Sorcery as the primary path and Inspiration Inspiration as the secondary path. The most supportive Maokai Maokai keystone rune is Phase Rush. Flash Flash and Smite are the summoner spells, which fits this LoL Maokai Build the most.

Item Build on Maokai

The starter items for the best Maokai Build on patch 13.24 are Scorchclaw Pup, Health Potion Health Potion, and a Stealth Ward Stealth Ward as the trinket. 88% of all Maokai Probuilds include Radiant Virtue as the favoured mythic item. As the game progresses, the most popular Maokai Maokai items are Demonic Embrace and Abyssal Mask Abyssal Mask. Ionian Boots of Lucidity are the most bought Maokai Maokai boots by Pros. This Maokai Build will exorbitantly increase your chances to gain LP and to climb the leaderboard in LoL.

Laning Phase

When it comes to gameplay, Maokai Maokai is pretty simple, especially with this Maokai Build. Most of your damage comes from your saplings, so you can focus on planting several of them in a single bush – not too close to the minion wave, or they will be aggro'd by them – and then wait for an unsuspecting enemy to walk in. Because of the fear of walking into the brush, you can zone the enemies away from farming, causing them to lose out on experience and gold.

If you do have a good opportunity to engage, Maokai Maokai is pretty great at that from level two onwards. The best thing to do is to whittle down your enemies with a sapling poke, then charge at them with Twisted Advance Twisted Advance. Once they're rooted, you can walk a bit in front of them and use your Bramble Smash Bramble Smash to push them closer towards your ally. Remember that your auto-attacks do a lot of damage in the early levels too, and they will heal you when Sap Magic Sap Magic is up as well.

Maokai Maokai is great at avoiding ganks thanks to the fact that saplings work as security as well. Place a sapling in the tri-bush or the river bush, and they will detect the enemy jungler or midlaner if they approach. If your jungler is ganking for you, don't be afraid to burn a Flash Flash to ensure that Twisted Advance Twisted Advance finds its target. Your ultimate is also a fantastic initiation or follow-up tool when you are getting a gank.

Team Fights

While Maokai Maokai is somewhat tanky compared to other AP supports, with the AP support build you will want to stay far away from the front line. In a teamfight, your usual job is to either follow up on an engage, find a pick with Twisted Advance Twisted Advance, or peel an enemy off for your botlaner.

Sapling Toss Sapling Toss is generally not very useful in team fights, unless you are fighting somewhere in the jungle where there is brush to take advantage of. Peeling is a breeze for Maokai Maokai with his targeted root, and he can follow it up by knocking the enemy back with Bramble Smash Bramble Smash or activating Nature's Grasp Nature's Grasp.

Maokai Abilities

At the beginning of a match start to skill the ability Bramble Smash Bramble Smash on Maokai Maokai. As the match progresses, it is best to maximise Bramble Smash Bramble Smash into Sapling Toss Sapling Toss and at last Twisted Advance Twisted Advance. Bramble Smash Bramble Smash is a very strong ability of Maokai Maokai in order to build up a lead and dominate your opponents. The passive is called Sap Magic Sap Magic and there is no need to set it manually on a Maokai Build.

Select one of the abilities below in order to start a clip of the ability:
Sap Magic
Bramble Smash
Q
Twisted Advance
W
Sapling Toss
E
Nature's Grasp
R
Sap Magic

Maokai's basic attack also heals him and deals additional damage on a moderate cooldown. Each time Maokai casts a spell or is struck by an enemy's spell, this cooldown is reduced.

Biography

Maokai is a rageful, towering treant who fights the unnatural horrors of the Shadow Isles. He was twisted into a force of vengeance after a magical cataclysm destroyed his home, surviving undeath only through the Waters of Life infused within his heartwood. Once a peaceful nature spirit, Maokai now furiously battles to banish the scourge of unlife from the Shadow Isles and restore his home to its former beauty.

Read Maokai's bio

Available Maokai Skins

Besides the Maokai build you can select a skin for Maokai. The best Maokai skins you can find below.

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