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Maokai Build

Jungle Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 5,191 gamesUpdated

51.0%win rate0.2%pick0.3%ban

Who counters Maokai

Every Jungle matchup for Maokai, ranked →

How to build Maokai

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Liandry's Torment→Bloodletter's Curse→Imperial Mandate

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Liandry's Torment → Bloodletter's Curse → Imperial Mandate

52.1% win rate 8% of games 267 games
RunesResolveAftershockFont of LifeConditioningOvergrowthPrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph31% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite98%
Skills
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Bramble Smash
13457
Twisted Advance
214151617
Sapling Toss
89101113
Nature's Grasp
612
StartGustwalker HatchlingHealth PotionGustwalker Hatchling, Health Potion
Full Maokai build →
51.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.2% over 12,952 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.0% over 5,191 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.4%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
0.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
48.5%under 22 min
53.2%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.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitJ MaokaivsAmbessa champion portraitJ Ambessa
4 / 1 / 13

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots of Swiftness|Dead Man's Plate→Protoplasm Harness→Bandlepipes

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEER
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitJ MaokaivsIvern champion portraitJ Ivern
3 / 5 / 7

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots of Swiftness|Liandry's Torment→Zeke's Convergence

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QWQEQRQEQERE
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitJ MaokaivsWukong champion portraitJ Wukong
3 / 6 / 16

Build

Scorchclaw PupIonian Boots of Lucidity|Liandry's Torment→Bloodletter's Curse

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEEREWW

Runes

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

Most popular 51.6% win rate · 31% of games · 1,337 games
ResolveAftershockFont of LifeConditioningOvergrowth
PrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 53.8% win rate · 28% of games · 1,222 games
InspirationFirst StrikeMagical FootwearTriple TonicCosmic Insight
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Shards Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 98% of games, 50.9% win rate. No real variation.

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

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity33%Mercury's Treads29%Plated Steelcaps29%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 50.8% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup60%
6 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Maokai build

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

  1. Imperial Mandate1st
  2. Liandry's Torment2nd
  3. Bloodletter's Curse3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path55.1% win rate127 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Maokai →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 5,274 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
32% · 50.9% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
28% · 52.0% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
28% · 51.9% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
5% · 47.1% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
2% · 41.7% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 48.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Liandry's Torment+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 34.3% win rate · 99 games
  2. Imperial Mandate›Liandry's Torment+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 38.0% win rate · 79 games
  3. Liandry's Torment+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 31.9% win rate · 69 games
  4. Liandry's Torment+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 39.6% win rate · 53 games
  5. Imperial Mandate›Liandry's Torment›Bloodletter's Curse+Ionian Boots of Lucidity1% of games · 46.2% win rate · 52 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.

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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