Support · 169 games · KR

Maokai

Support · 74% of games Top · 14%Jungle · 12%

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (61%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−151 gold), and still wins 53%.

Win rate: 53.3%; ±7.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: A; #13 of 53
Pick rate: 2.6%; ban 0.2%
Games: 169; ranked solo/duo

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Maokai support wins 53.3% of 169 ranked games in KR, rank 13 of 53 support champions (tier A). Most players finish Locket of the Iron Solari first, at about 13:00.

The build at a glance

What most Maokai players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 7:54 · 51% of games

Item 1

Locket of the Iron Solari 13:16 · 41% · 63 games

Item 2

Knight's Vow 22:36 · 34% · 10 games

Item 3 · late game

Bandlepipes 29:00 · 5 of 21 games

Runes

Aftershock · Resolve + Inspiration 24% of games · 54% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 97% of games · 52% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 56% of games · 49% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Bramble Smash first 86% of games · 51% wins Skill orders →

When Maokai wins

Best when games end at 25–30′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′47% wins48% of games · 81

Lasts 25′ or more60% wins51% of games · 86

Lanes

Watch out for Alistar

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Maokai games

First Baron: 84% against 32%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 32% 84% +52

First tower 35% 76% +41

First dragon 38% 74% +35

Rift Herald 39% 75% +35

First Voidgrubs 41% 63% +23

First blood 45% 61% +16

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Maokai plays

Less damage to towers, fewer solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Less damage to towers664 against 1044 · −36%

Fewer solo kills a game0.1 against 0.2 · −29%

Fewer multikills a game0.06 against 0.08 · −25%

About average: assists, vision, deaths, time spent dead, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~14:12

Item 2done ~23:00

Item 3done ~29:42

Item 4

Most common full builds

Locket of the Iron Solari › Boots of Swiftness › Knight's Vow › Bandlepipes 75.0%4 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Bandlepipes 86%7

Locket of the Iron Solari 67%6

Knight's Vow 43%7

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion52.4%164

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Boots + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~7:5454.0%87

Plated Steelcaps ~8:4250.0%32

Mercury's Treads ~10:3659.1%22

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite49.5%95

Flash + Heal57.8%64

Exhaust + Flash60.0%10

Skills

Max

E50.7%146

Max

E64.7%17

Start

E59.6%94

Start

E43.1%51

Hard lanes

Watch out for Alistar

Easy lanes

Good into Nautilus

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 4 of 5, still wins 2 of them

Expected: what Maokai's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (13)

Leona 44% · 9

Braum 50% · 8

Rakan 57% · 7

Camille 33% · 6

Neeko 83% · 6

Poppy 80% · 5

Bard 100% · 5

Pyke 60% · 5

Renata Glasc 50% · 4

Pantheon 75% · 4

Blitzcrank 50% · 4

Senna 50% · 4

Tahm Kench 33% · 3

Maokai vs Lulu · 15 games · Early read

About what you would expect

53%winsexpected 55%

−226gold at 15′average −151

−0.1minions at 10′ahead or behind

33%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.20 a game

Gold lead against Lulu Maokai's average lead

Against Lulu, Maokai is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 67% of games, and still wins 60% of those. When ahead, Maokai wins 40%.

Ahead at 15′40% wins5 games

Behind at 15′60% wins10 games

Full Maokai vs Lulu page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Maokai games: Qiyana, Kai'Sa

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble

Qiyana38% · exp. 50% −1316 games

Lee Sin42% · exp. 53% −1119 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Kai'Sa44% · exp. 52% −818 games

Jhin50% · exp. 56% −616 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most supports

Before 14 minutes Maokai dies 3.0 times a game (average 2.7). 49% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average support. 10% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.0deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.7)

49%involve the enemy junglerabout average (50%)

90%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (90%)

25%with no teammate nearabout average (26%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Maokai dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 32% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 47% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 41% in their half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Maokai

Kind of death

Maokai Average

Gank 49% (avg 50%)Collapse 41% (avg 41%)1-v-1 10% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Maokai Average

Bot laner 44% (avg 41%)Jungler 26% (avg 27%)Support 12% (avg 14%)Mid laner 12% (avg 15%)Top laner 5% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 4:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Maokai Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 4:00, 6:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Maokai; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Maokai wins fights

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 0.9 kills per death in their jungle against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 0.4 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 62 / 192

Their half of bot lane 0.6 K/D 74 / 118

The bot-side river 0.2 K/D 14 / 72

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 9 / 35

Their jungle 0.9 K/D 18 / 21

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 6 / 32

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Maokai wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 47% of their team's dragon takes (average support 46%). The team wins 74% when Maokai is there and 78% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 10:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 52% against 42%; for Maokai it is 55% against 42%.

Maokai

What most Maokai players run

Best when games end at 25–30′

Watch out for Alistar

First Baron: 84% against 32%

Less damage to towers, fewer solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Alistar

Good into Nautilus

Behind at 15 against 4 of 5, still wins 2 of them

About what you would expect

Maokai does worse than expected here

Maokai does worse than expected here

Maokai does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Enemies that cost Maokai games: Qiyana, Kai'Sa

Teammates that change Maokai's games

Dies about as often as most supports

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Maokai

Ganks come at 4:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Where fights happen