LoL Champion Build Guides: Maokai

Maokai The Twisted Treant

Find the best Maokai build guides for League of Legends S11 Patch 11.20. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Maokai build for the S11 meta. Learn more about Maokai's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

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Maokai Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Maokai we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Maokai, as determined by LeagueSpy's calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Maokai this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 11.20. However, if you are a new Maokai player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Maokai!

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Patch 11.20: 433188 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Resolve

Inspiration

Second Best

53%

Win Rate 748 Games

Resolve

Inspiration

Third Best

59%

Win Rate 61 Games

Resolve

Inspiration

More Maokai Runes

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50%

Win Rate 848 Games

Second Best

53%

Win Rate 517 Games

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38%

Win Rate 245 Games

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! Small Sample Size Warning * There is either not a lot of games played on this champion or the builds vary greatly, we have provided the top build but it does not have a high confidence rating so use your own discretion.

Passive Ability

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88%

Win Rate 8 Games

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86%

Win Rate 7 Games

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More Maokai Runes

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49%

Win Rate 1107 Games

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Win Rate 239 Games

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Win Rate 923 Games

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Win Rate 92 Games

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Second Best

80%

Win Rate 5 Games

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46%

Win Rate 28 Games

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69%

Win Rate 13 Games

Sorcery

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48%

Win Rate 66 Games

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Win Rate 79 Games

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Win Rate 1 Games

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Maokai Counters

Learn 's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Maokai guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!

This counter data is for Maokai Support in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Maokai. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

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CR is Counter Rating, which is a combination of multiple counter factors. Counters shown are for Maokai Maokai Support

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Maokai Skins

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Find Maokai's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Maokai skins and chromas on Maokai's skins page.

Skin Release Wishlist Popularity Cost

Astronaut Maokai

July 1, 2021

+ Wishlist

1350

Worldbreaker Maokai

April 9, 2020

+ Wishlist

1350

Victorious Maokai

Special Events

October 11, 2016

+ Wishlist

Meowkai

Special Events

April 1, 2016

+ Wishlist

1350

Goalkeeper Maokai

Special Events

June 18, 2014

+ Wishlist

750

Haunted Maokai

Special Events

October 26, 2012

+ Wishlist

975

Festive Maokai

Special Events

December 13, 2011

+ Wishlist

975

Totemic Maokai

February 16, 2011

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520

Classic Maokai

Original

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Charred Maokai

February 16, 2011

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975

Maokai's Abilities

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Sap Magic Maokai's Passive

Self

Periodically, Maokai's next basic attack against a non-structure heals him for 5 / 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 (+7 / 8.5 / 10 / 11.5 / 13 / 14 / 15% maximum health) (depending on level).

Each time Maokai casts an ability or is struck by an enemy's ability, Sap Magic's cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds.

Sap Magic will not trigger if Maokai is above 95% health.

Bramble Smash Maokai's Q Ability

700

8 / 7.25 / 6.5 / 5.75 / 5

Maokai slams the ground, the force of which knocks nearby enemies back and sends an arcane shockwave forward, dealing 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and slowing his enemies by 99% for 0.25 seconds. Enemies close to Maokai are knocked back slightly more.

Twisted Advance Maokai's W Ability

525

13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9

Maokai transforms into a cloud of arcane energy, becoming untargetable and quickly traveling to a target enemy. The target takes 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and is rooted in place for 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 second(s).

Sapling Toss Maokai's E Ability

1100

60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100

Maokai hurls a sapling to a target area. The sapling becomes implanted in the ground, warding a nearby area for 30 seconds. After a 1 second delay after landing, the sapling will seek out nearby enemies. When an enemy approaches, the sapling will chase for up to 2.5 seconds and explode in an arcane blast that deals 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 plus 7 / 7.25 / 7.5 / 7.75 / 8% (+0.7% per 100 ability power) of target's maximum health as magic damage to enemies and slows them by 35% for 2 seconds.

Saplings have 400 base movement speed increasing based on Maokai's boots:
Boots of Speed: 425
Most upgraded boots: 445
Boots of Swiftness / Boots of Mobility: 460

Saplings tossed into brush last 30 (+2.5% of Maokai's bonus health) seconds and have a larger detonation radius. Enemies caught in the explosion take 67% damage on detonation plus two additional ticks of 67% damage over 2 seconds.

Sapling Toss's damage against non-champions is capped at 300 (empowered sapling damage over time has its own cap, for a total of 600 per empowered sapling)

Nature's Grasp Maokai's Ultimate (R) Ability

3000

100

120 / 100 / 80 / 80 / 80

Maokai summons a colossal wall of 5 thorny brambles that slowly advances forward, each stopping at the first enemy champion they collide with, dealing 150 / 225 / 300 (+75% of ability power) magic damage and rooting them for 0.8-2.6 seconds (based on distance traveled).

Questions About Maokai

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Latest Questions

Why does 50% of Maokai skins have the old splash art when showing in the gu

Asked by Fan22 on February 3, 2021

Some Maokai skins splash art's have old pictures of the skins, for example charred or christmas tree mao, can this get fixed? it just looks strange to see the old art..

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Maokai new

Asked by whybother34 on May 17, 2016

What is the best item on support maokai?

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Top Laner

Asked by IntroBot on October 8, 2015

Is Maokai in the meta for a good top lane champion?

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good tank junglers

Asked by mjskid on February 8, 2015

who are some of the best tank junglers right now?

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Least played champions?

Asked by dudm on April 30, 2014

I have just been curios guys about why some champions are not played that much. I know that unpopular picks like swain, galio, mao'kai, and yorick are all strong picks in their respective fields. What I am trying to get to in this is why some...

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Advice on using Maokais ultimate?

Asked by androsynth on February 2, 2013

I've been jungling a lot with [[Maokai]] lately. I love his ganking, but I still haven't figured out how to use [[vengeful maelstrom]] effectively. The problems I have: [list] [*] It is hard to figure out the best place to place it. Should I...

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LoL Champion Build Guides: Maokai

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S11 Complete Maokai Support Guide

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[S11] AP MAOKAI SUPPORT - SAPLING CITY

S11 Jungle - easy climbing carrykai

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Sap Magic (PASSIVE)

Bramble Smash (Q)

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Sapling Toss (E)

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Sap Magic (PASSIVE)

Bramble Smash (Q)

Twisted Advance (W)

Sapling Toss (E)

Nature's Grasp (R)