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Maokai champion portrait

Maokai Build

Support Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 20,517 gamesUpdated

50.9%win rate0.9%pick0.3%ban

Who counters Maokai

Every Support matchup for Maokai, ranked →

How to build Maokai

Boots of Swiftness→Bandlepipes→Locket of the Iron Solari→Thornmail

Boots of Swiftness → Bandlepipes → Locket of the Iron Solari → Thornmail

56.8% win rate 10% of games 848 games
RunesResolveAftershockFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinchingInspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight38% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite65%
Skills
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Bramble Smash
24578
Twisted Advance
19101213
Sapling Toss
314151718
Nature's Grasp
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Maokai build →

Best ADCs for Maokai

Who Maokai has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Maokai

Who Maokai has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

50.9%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.4% over 47,276 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.9% over 20,517 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.5%at Emerald+
0.9%pick rate
0.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
46.6%under 22 min
51.3%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitS Maokai+Tristana champion portraitB TristanavsThresh champion portraitS Thresh+Aphelios champion portraitB Aphelios
2 / 8 / 9

Build

Solstice SleighBoots of Swiftness|Bandlepipes→Knight's Vow

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQ
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitS Maokai+Tristana champion portraitB TristanavsLulu champion portraitS Lulu+Twitch champion portraitB Twitch
2 / 6 / 24

Build

Solstice SleighBoots of Swiftness|Bandlepipes→Knight's Vow→Locket of the Iron Solari

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRWWE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitS Maokai+Aphelios champion portraitB ApheliosvsBard champion portraitS Bard+Jhin champion portraitB Jhin
2 / 8 / 10

Build

Solstice SleighBoots of Swiftness|Knight's Vow→Bandlepipes

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 51.1% win rate · 38% of games · 6,954 games
ResolveAftershockFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinching
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Adaptive Force · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.9% win rate · 23% of games · 4,259 games
ResolveAftershockFont of LifeConditioningOvergrowth
PrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite65%50.3%13,941 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash21%52.7%4,496 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Boots of Swiftness49%Plated Steelcaps24%Mercury's Treads16%
Boots of Swiftness most often · 52.5% win rate
Support item
Solstice Sleigh57%Celestial Opposition34%Zaz'Zak's Realmspike8%
Solstice Sleigh most often · 52.0% win rate

Maokai build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Locket of the Iron Solari1st
  2. Bandlepipes2nd
  3. Thornmail3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path59.0% win rate600 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Maokai →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 20,732 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
48% · 52.7% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
24% · 51.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
16% · 51.8% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
7% · 51.5% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 34.7% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
1% · 45.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Locket of the Iron Solari›Bandlepipes+Boots of Swiftness5% of games · 49.7% win rate · 955 games
  2. Locket of the Iron Solari+Boots of Swiftness4% of games · 42.2% win rate · 883 games
  3. Locket of the Iron Solari›Thornmail+Boots of Swiftness3% of games · 46.8% win rate · 679 games
  4. Locket of the Iron Solari›Thornmail+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 46.6% win rate · 363 games
  5. Locket of the Iron Solari+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 38.1% win rate · 339 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Maokai against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Maokai's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Maokai's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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