Maokai Quotes

Champion Select

Pick

• "The Isles will bloom again!"

Ban

• "Your reckoning will come either way."

Movement

First Move

• "Life can come back, once the earth is turned."
• "Hold tight, my sapling."
• "Beset by spirits, my home laid to waste!... And they call me twisted."
• "The water of life succumbed to death. The mortals will follow."

Moving

• "Human nature? Pah!"
• "Fight for the saplings!"
• "Drink deep of what magic remains."
• "If I am already lost, I will take them with me."
• "Flee into the forest? I am the forest."
• "Mortals irritate me, like an itch beneath my bark."
• "I will punish their wickedness."
• "What have you wrought, mortals? What have I?"
• "My heartwood is pure."
• "I will end this misuse of magic!"
• "Every step, defiance!"
• "I cannot stop—the forest needs me."
• "We must pull up our roots; darkness corrupts the land."
• "Reckless mortals!"
• "I will fight for every pebble, every blade of grass."
• "Living or dead, they are all the same."
• "The idol is over."
• "The Mist haunts my every move, yet I resist."
• "Once they were human. Now, they are only in my way."
• "Life here existed in a time before death."
• "Now, where did I put that sapling...?"
• "They trample life! I will trample them!"
• "I will show them what was lost in the Ruination."
• "Once my limbs reached for the sky, now for nearest mortal neck!"
• "A shadow has fallen, as men have fallen."
• "I cannot find peace! Not even in the smallest branch!"
• "I once had peace. It is better to have purpose!"
• "There is beauty here, even now, in the human's fear."
• "Stillness is not peace! It is death!"
• "I do nature's bidding... to the very end."

Moving › Moving toward a Brush

• "The green in these plants, it is something I have lost."
• "I can watch the mortals doom themselves from here."
• "The young sprouts beneath my feet... they tremble."
• "Nature conceals darkness."
• "Once more into the grass."
• "There is life still untouched by the Mist."

First Encounter

First Encounter with Ahri

• "I'd like you more if you were a fox."

First Encounter with Aurelion Sol

• "You create only destruction, Star Forger."

First Encounter with Bard

• "You make me glad I don't have ears."

First Encounter with Darius Both sides

• "Strength starts in the roots—and you have none."

First Encounter with Elise

• "Oh, what mortals will do for beauty. Kill, and wear pointy shoes."
• "Stop putting web in my branches!"
• "I hear your skittering, mortal."

First Encounter with Fiddlesticks

• "You give sticks a bad name—and fiddles too!"

First Encounter with Garen

• "Stop carving words into my bark! Everyone knows G <3 K!"
• "Demacia's walls will not stop the Black Mist."

First Encounter with Hecarim

• "One of many shadows on the Isles. The Shadow of War."
• "Trample that blade of grass, horseman. I dare you."

First Encounter with Ivern Both sides

• "Only men seek redemption."
• "Make like a tree and vacate the area."
• "Kill them with kindness?" Maokai laughs scornfully.
• "The sapling of the god Willow."

First Encounter with Jayce

• "A voice follows this one! A song, like those in the Mist!"

First Encounter with Kalista

• "It is the Isles that were betrayed!"
• "Spirit of vengeance? And what of the forest?"

First Encounter with Karthus

• "The saplings wish to hear your dirge. Please, sing it... while I destroy you!"
• "The song of life, now silent."
• "You make me glad I don't have ears."

First Encounter with Kindred Both sides

• "I am no abomination!"
• "The forest clings to life, and you would end it!"

First Encounter with Lucian

• "I am no abomination!"
• "The forest clings to life, and you would end it!"

First Encounter with Mordekaiser

• "Another pile of bones wearing a crown."
• "Rival to the Ruined King—in ruin."

First Encounter with Nautilus

• "Darkness gathers on the Isles—from every depth."

First Encounter with Poppy

• "Beware the mortals' gifts."

First Encounter with Sona

• "You make me glad I don't have ears."

First Encounter with Thresh

• "A lantern? Ha! The forest is very dark indeed."
• "It is torture enough being near you, spirit."
• "The soul of the Isles is lost—beyond your grasp."

First Encounter with Yorick Both sides

• "The Isles have forgotten more than just your name."
• "So you're what passes for a hero among the fleshlings?"
• "You would scour the Isles without planting a seed."
• "Have you ever tried to dig through roots? Good luck, human."

First Encounter with Zyra

• "A dangerous bloom, that one."
• "It was a mistake to become human. You will share their doom."
• "You forgot your roots!"
• "The most beautiful flowers have the sharpest thorns."

First Encounter with an Axe-Wielding Champion

• "An axe is no danger if I cut you down first!"

First Encounter with a Mage

• "Magic came from nature, and will return to nature."

First Encounter with a Shadow Isles Champion

• "To bleed the bloodless."
• "Come and meet your end—and... a sapling or two."
• "Your existence was not meant to be."
• "There is still life enough within me to grant you death."

First Encounter with a Yordle

• "Yordle... Stay out of my trunk!"

Taunt

• "The seeds of your destruction!"
• "The sapling does not fall far from the treant!"
• "If a human screams in the forest, will anyone hear it?"

Taunting an ally Shadow Isles Champion

• "In the end, darkness destroys itself."
• "I am nothing like you! I can't be!"
• "For the forest to bloom, I will tolerate your presence."

Taunt Response

• "Impressive words—but I'm a tree. I don't care."

Joke

• "I love all my saplings—especially how they taste." (gulp)
• "The circle of life starts with death!" (gulp)
• "If only the humans were vegetarians." (gulp)

Attack

Attacking

• "This power is mine to command."
• "The blessed waters turn within me."
• "In the end, they all scream!"
• "Protect what is pure."
• "Bones break before branches."
• "To find life, I will snuff yours out."
• "Where men fall, saplings rise!"
• "How my branches groan!"
• "Once this land knew solitude."
• "Life feeds on death!"
• "Torment at your peril."
• "I refuse to wilt."
• "Life torn from your grasp."
• "It is in my nature."
• "I will sow fear."
• "There is rot within!"
• "I'll show you 'twisted'!"
• "Rooted out."
• "The trees have learned violence."
• "So much life, stolen!"
• "Vengeance may be hollow, but so is my trunk!"
• "It is good to ungnarl my limbs."
• "Your life bloom fades!"
• "You defile the grove!"
• "Madness!"

Ability Casting

Using Bramble Smash

• "Stand back!"
• "This will leave splinters!"

Using Sapling Toss

• "Away, my sapling."
• "Seek the forest's foes."
• "Give them room to spread their leaves!"

Using Sapling Toss › Throwing a Sapling into a Brush

• "Patient as a tree."
• "One with nature."

Using Sapling Toss › Throwing a Sapling toward a nearby visible Ivern Both sides

• "Greenfather, my sapling wishes to meet you."
• "The Greenfather spreads life. The Mist will end it."
• "Careful, my sapling. Ivern is watching."

Using Sapling Toss › Throwing a Sapling into an Enemy Ivern's created Brush

• "Does this make you uncomfortable, Bramblefoot?"

Using Nature's Grasp

• "Lashing roots!"
• "Wretched souls!"
• "Fools!"

Kills and Objectives

Killing a Champion

• "Another shadow."
• "To rest, if only you could."
• "Mortals? Hmph."
• "You would fight the forest in the forest?"
• "Mortals always invading."
• "Blood makes the grass grow."
• "I would end your burden, but it always returns."
• "Wood knocks back!"
• "Vengeance bears the sweetest fruit."
• "Enough bark, and there's no need for a bite."

Killing Ivern Both sides

• "Mortal to the end."
• "Pruning dead branches; and odd ones."
• "A friend of the forest no more."

Killing an Enemy Shadow Isles Champion

• "Begone, vile spirit!"
• "The Isles will be cleansed!"

Shopping

Buying Doran's Shield

• "I wondered what happened to that tree."

Buying Iceborn Gauntlet

• "I do tend to punch things."
• "From a land where the trees are hardy and tall... and very, very cold."
• "To strike a blow for nature."

Buying Sunfire Aegis

• "Burn through the Mist."

Buying Warmog's Armor

• "Is it woven from branches? I can never tell."
• "Restoring life."
• "To aid the waters within my wood."

Recall

• "Uprooted."
• "The grove beckons."

Astronaut Maokai

• "Uprooted." Astronaut
• "The grove beckons." Astronaut

Death

• "Flee, my saplings... "
• "The forest... "
• "To the soil... "

Respawn

• "Hope blooms anew."
• "The maelstrom has not ended!"
• "I rage against this curse!"
• "Didn't even notch my trunk."
• "Another blade stuck in my bark."