Maokai·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Maokai Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Aftershock as your keystone, followed by Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, as well as Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Solstice Sleigh as your first item, followed by Boots of Swiftness and Trailblazer. For your last 3 items, you should build Locket of the Iron Solari, Redemption and finish with Vigilant Wardstone. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 53.9% winrate over 3 568 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Maokai Support build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Aftershock as your keystone, Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Celestial Opposition, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Locket of the Iron Solari as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Redemption, Thornmail and Vigilant Wardstone. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 50.4% win rate over 1 781 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Cheap Shot with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Zaz'Zak's Realmspike as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Liandry's Torment as a third item. You want to finish the build with Bloodletter's Curse, Morellonomicon and Rabadon's Deathcap. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 52.2% win rate across 274 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Maokai Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Heal as your Summoner Spells, Unsealed Spellbook, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight as your primary rune tree, and Bone Plating with Unflinching as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Move Speed and Health as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Celestial Opposition as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and Redemption as third item. The last 3 options are Locket of the Iron Solari, Trailblazer and Vigilant Wardstone. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 60.1% win rate over 143 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.