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Maokai Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 4,245 gamesUpdated

49.7%win rate0.2%pick0.3%ban

Who counters Maokai

Every Top matchup for Maokai, ranked →

How to build Maokai

Plated Steelcaps→Spirit Visage→Unending Despair→Fimbulwinter

Plated Steelcaps → Spirit Visage → Unending Despair → Fimbulwinter

56.8% win rate 10% of games 229 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishSecond WindOvergrowthSorceryManaflow BandTranscendence50% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport78%
Skills
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Bramble Smash
13457
Twisted Advance
2891012
Sapling Toss
1314151718
Nature's Grasp
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Maokai build →
49.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.5% over 10,395 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.7% over 4,245 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.1%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
0.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
46.4%under 22 min
50.1%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 portraitT MaokaivsGaren champion portraitT Garen
2 / 5 / 5

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Liandry's Torment→Winter's Approach

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWRWWEER
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitT MaokaivsAmbessa champion portraitT Ambessa
2 / 5 / 8

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Unending Despair→Winter's Approach

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRWWEER
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Maokai champion portraitT MaokaivsCho'Gath champion portraitT Cho'Gath
5 / 9 / 12

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Spirit Visage→Dead Man's Plate→Imperial Mandate

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQWRWWEERE

Runes

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

Most popular 49.0% win rate · 50% of games · 1,694 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishSecond WindOvergrowth
SorceryManaflow BandTranscendence
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 52.9% win rate · 14% of games · 461 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishSecond WindOvergrowth
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport78%49.4%3,395 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite16%50.4%697 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps54%Mercury's Treads31%Ionian Boots of Lucidity7%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.4% win rate

Maokai build

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

  1. Fimbulwinter1st
  2. Unending Despair2nd
  3. Spirit Visage3rd
3% of games that reach a third item take this path58.7% win rate63 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Maokai →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 4,233 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 14,233 games
Item 23,641 games

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
53% · 50.8% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
31% · 50.9% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
6% · 49.5% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 42.1% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
3% · 48.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 32.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 38.2% win rate · 102 games
  2. Unending Despair+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 39.4% win rate · 94 games
  3. Fimbulwinter›Unending Despair+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 41.3% win rate · 75 games
  4. Unending Despair›Fimbulwinter+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 45.5% win rate · 55 games
  5. Hollow Radiance+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 20.8% win rate · 53 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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