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Maokai·Jungle Build
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R| Win rate | 49.5% |
| Pick rate | 0.8% |
| Ban rate | 0.2% |
| Matches | 9 757- |
Maokai Build
Jungle ∙ Patch 16.15Most Popular
Win Rate 49.7% based on 1 207 matches
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Recommended builds
Most Popular
49.7%
Highest WR
53.5%
Alternative
52.7%
Off-Meta
50.9%Top Players ALL
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50.0%
KhaeI OTP
50.0%
Matchup Specific
Lee Sin
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Graves
47.3%runes
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Starter Items
Time Target
@ 11 sec
Early Items
@ 4 min
Core Items
@ 18 min
Full Build
ability order
Q
E
W
Skills
situational items
Maokai Matchups Overview
Weak Against
Strong Against
Maokai General information
Maokai tips and tricks
Maokai’s Ultimate R is great in team fights. Once you engage with your Ultimate R, fall back and protect your carries.
Place down as many Saplings E as possible before your first camp spawns. Place them in a bush when possible.
Your goal in the early game is to gank as much as you can with your point and click CC W. Try and get your allies ahead from the get-go.
Maokai combos
Every combo you need to master the champion!
The Best Maokai Builds, Runes and Items for Jungle in Emerald +
Most Popular
If you want to use the most popular Maokai Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Cheap Shot and Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Liandry's Torment as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Imperial Mandate. For your last 3 items, you should build Bloodletter's Curse, Spirit Visage and finish with Morellonomicon. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 49.7% winrate over 1 207 matches played.
Alternative
If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Stormraider's Surge as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Waterwalking in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree, as well as Ability Haste, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Liandry's Torment as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Imperial Mandate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Bloodletter's Curse, Spirit Visage and Protoplasm Harness. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 52.7% win rate across 328 matches played.
Off-Meta
If you want to try an Off-Meta Maokai Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Legend: Haste with Triumph as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then finish Mercury's Treads as your second item, and Spirit Visage as third item. The last 3 options are Thornmail, Unending Despair and Protoplasm Harness. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 50.9% win rate over 230 matches played.
Situational Maokai Runes and Items
Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Maokai build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.
Furthermore, if you want a more detailed breakdown, you should also check out Maokai runes page.
Probuilds
Check out the latest and best Maokai Probuilds used by pros from around the world, featured by lolvvv.
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In-depth Build Stats
Dive into even more Maokai builds stats with additional analysis from our friends at LoLalytics.
Maokai Counters - Best and Worst Matchups for Jungle in Emerald +
Best Matchups
In Patch 26.15 the best possible matchups for Maokai Jungle are:
- vs. Locke - 65.2% win rate over 69 games.
- vs. Karthus - 63.5% win rate over 52 games.
- vs. Volibear - 59.2% win rate over 49 games.
- vs. Rengar - 59.1% win rate over 220 games.
- vs. Fiddlesticks - 58.3% win rate over 108 games.
Consider picking Maokai into these matches to increase your chance to win a game. These are the most popular Jungle matchups that currently are in favor of Maokai.
Worst Matchups
We highly recommend avoiding picking Maokai in the current patch into the following Jungle matchups:
- vs. Aatrox - 37.2% win rate over 78 games.
- vs. Nidalee - 37.6% win rate over 133 games.
- vs. Sylas - 40.9% win rate over 445 games.
- vs. Sejuani - 42.6% win rate over 94 games.
- vs. Shyvana - 42.9% win rate over 182 games.
These champions are considered as Maokai counters in the current patch, and playing such a matchup will decrease your chances of winning a game.
Additional Notes
If you want to find out more about best and worst matchups, as well as specific matchup statistics, we highly encourage you to check our Maokai counters page. Keep in mind that while the champion may counter or be countered, it also comes down to your individual skill, the skill of your opponent, your team, and enemy team compositions.
