Maokai Build Guides, Runes and Items
Maokai The Twisted Treant
Find the best Maokai build guides for League of Legends S13 Patch 13.24. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Maokai build for the S13 meta. Learn more about Maokai's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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smoke this tree
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Maokai -Chew the Bark off My Big Fat Log
Maokai, Tank
Maokai - AP Burst
Maokai the AP force of nature
Tree Trollin'
Maokai, The Crusher of Souls
Maokai: The tree.
Maokai - One of the best builds
Maokai, the other tanky caster
The Tank Mage
Maokai Tank
guide maokai
The Carry Maokai
mki
dont forget to buy pots ; )
Maokai AD. Mexican boxing tree!
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 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 13.24. 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!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Maokai's Runes
52%
Win Rate 59% Pickrate
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Second Best
51%
Win Rate 18% Pickrate
Third Best
50%
Win Rate 13% Pickrate
Maokai's Summoner Spells
51%
Win Rate 64% Pickrate
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Maokai's Starters
51%
Win Rate 50% Pickrate
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Maokai's Core Items
60%
Win Rate 13% Pickrate
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Boots
Maokai's Luxury Items
Maokai's Ability Order
50%
Win Rate 54% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
53%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
51%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Maokai's Runes
53%
Win Rate 64% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
54%
Win Rate 15% Pickrate
Third Best
52%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Maokai's Summoner Spells
53%
Win Rate 86% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Maokai's Starters
53%
Win Rate 73% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Maokai's Core Items
65%
Win Rate 6% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Maokai's Luxury Items
Maokai's Ability Order
54%
Win Rate 42% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
53%
Win Rate 14% Pickrate
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
53%
Win Rate 7% Pickrate
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Maokai's Runes
52%
Win Rate 48% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 31% Pickrate
Third Best
50%
Win Rate 9% Pickrate
Maokai's Summoner Spells
52%
Win Rate 93% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Maokai's Starters
52%
Win Rate 65% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Maokai's Core Items
59%
Win Rate 6% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Maokai's Luxury Items
Maokai's Ability Order
52%
Win Rate 47% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 19% Pickrate
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
56%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Sap Magic (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Maokai Counters
Learn Maokai'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 JUNGLE 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.
Best Against Maokai
Worst Against Maokai
Maokai Skins
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Wishlist
Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Maokai's Abilities
Using an ability or being hit by an enemy champion's ability reduces the cooldown by 4 seconds. Being hit by large or epic monster's attacks or abilities reduces the cooldown by 1.5 seconds.
If placed in brush, Saplings instead last for 30 (+2.5% bonus health) seconds and cause a larger explosion, dealing 36.67 / 53.33 / 70 / 86.67 / 103.33 (+23.33% of ability power) (+3.33% bonus health) magic damage over 3 seconds (for a total of 110 / 160 / 210 / 260 / 310 (+70% of ability power) (+10% bonus health) magic damage) and slowing enemies by 45% (+1% per 100 ability power) (+1% per 100 bonus health).
Questions About Maokai
Latest Questions
Why does 50% of Maokai skins have the old splash art when showing in the gu
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..
Maokai new
What is the best item on support maokai?
Top Laner
Is Maokai in the meta for a good top lane champion?
good tank junglers
who are some of the best tank junglers right now?
Least played champions?
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...
Advice on using Maokais ultimate?
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...
