Wild Rift: MAOKAI Build Guide
League of Legends: Wild Rift MAOKAI, role - Tank. Use the guidelines to take your MAOKAI Wild Rift champion play style to the next level. Study in detail the build of items, runes, spells, skills that need to be developed in the first place. In order to find out what position MAOKAI is in the rating table, go to the - Tier List page.
 66 (3.5) |  690 (128) |  10 (0.65) |
 0.80 (0.015) |  380 (60) |  33 (0.79) |
 345 (0) |  49 (4) |  36 (2) |
 175% (0) |
(PASSIVE) SAP MAGIC
Every 24 seconds, Maokai's next attack restores 28 Health (
)
Using an ability or being hit by an enemy champion's ability reduces this ability's cooldown by 3 seconds.
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
8/7/6/5s 
60
Smashes his fist into the ground, unleashing a shockwave that deals 60 magic damage (60/115/170/225 + 50% 
) plus 2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's max Health and slows them briefly for 0.25 seconds. Nearby enemies are also knocked back.
Deals 120 bonus damage to monsters.
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
14/13/12/11s 60
Transforms into a moving mass of roots, becoming untargetable and dashing to an enemy champion target. Upon arriver, he roots them for 0.8/0.95/1.1/1.25 seconds and deals 60 magic damage (60/95/130/165 + 50% ).
Deals 180% damage to monsters.
(E) SAPLING TOSS
12s 45
Flings a sapling, which stands watch at where it lands for 20 seconds. Saplings chase nearby enemies, detonating on arrival to deal 60 magic damage (60/90/120/150 + 25% + 6% bonus ) and slow nearby enemies by 30% for 2 seconds.
If placed in brush, saplings stand watch for 30 seconds and cause a larger explosion upon catching up to targets, dealing 200% magic damage and slowing enemies hit by 30% (+1.5% per 100 bonus and +1% per 100 bonus ) for 3 seconds.
Saplings deal 130% damage to minions regardless of whether they are placed in brush or not.
Saplings deal a maximum of 300 damage to monsters.
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
75/70/65s 100
Summons a slow-moving colossal wave of brambles, dealing 175 magic damage (200/250/325 + 65% ) and rooting enemies hit for 0.8 seconds. Root duration increases with distance traveled by the brambles.
Hitting an enemy champion with this ability grants Maokai 40/50/60% Movement Speed, which decays over 2 seconds. Hitting a new target refreshes this duration.
Jungle MAOKAI Build items and runes
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Jungle Line MAOKAI. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Key items
Shimmering Spark (Burns nearby enemies). Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy 
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Shimmering Spark
Burns nearby enemies
+50 Max Health
Immolate: Deals 5-10 magic damage per second to nearby enemies.
500
Searing Crown
Attacks and damaging abilities burn enemies +300 Max Health
+50 Armor
Fiery Touch: After dealing damage with an attack or ability, burn target for 3 seconds, dealing 1.4% of the target’s maximum health as magic damage per second (damage reduced to 0.8% for ranged users).
Deals 150% damage to minions and monsters.
Maximum 125 damage to monsters. 2700
Searing Crown TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to combine high survivability with bonus health-percentage damage. It provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Fiery Touch” passive burns targets on hit with attacks or abilities, dealing magic damage equal to a percentage of their maximum health. This makes it effective against tanks and high-health champions, while also speeding up waveclear and jungle clear. Ideal for tanks and bruisers who want to leave a mark in fights while staying durable.
Boots of Mana
Ability Power, Magic Penetration, Mana Regeneration
+55 Ability Power
+45 Move Speed.
+150% Mana Regeneration
Magic Break: 
+8% Magic Penetration.
Big Bully: Attacks and active abilities deal 18 bonus physical damage to minions. 1400
Boots of Mana TIPS: These boots are perfect for mages who need extra mana regeneration and enhanced spell power. They provide bonuses to ability power, movement speed, and greatly speed up mana recovery. The “Magic Break” passive increases your spell effectiveness with bonus magic penetration, while “Big Bully” accelerates waveclear by dealing bonus physical damage to minions with attacks and active abilities. These boots are ideal for mid laners and supports who rely on mana for constant ability usage and want to farm waves more efficiently.
Sunfire Aegis
Burns nearby emenies +500 Max Health +15 Ability Haste
Immolate: Deals 16-25 magic damage + 0.8% bonus HP per second to nearby enemies. Damaging champions or epic monsters with Immolate increases its damage by 11% for 5s, stacking up to 4 times.
Flametouch: At max Immolate stacks, attacks burn enemies around you for 50% of Immolate's damage over 3 seconds. Immolate deals 130% damage to monsters and 175-250% (
) damage to minions. 2900
Sunfire Aegis TIPS: This item is ideal for champions who need high survivability and constant close-range damage. It greatly increases your maximum health and provides ability haste, helping you stay in fights longer. The “Immolate” passive deals magic damage per second to nearby enemies, and each hit on champions or epic monsters increases its damage for a short duration, stacking up to four times. At maximum stacks, the “Flametouch” effect causes your basic attacks to burn enemies around you, dealing a portion of the zone’s damage. This makes the item a great choice for tanks and fighters who frequently find themselves in the thick of battle and want to combine defense with sustained AOE damage.
Boots of Mana
Ability Power, Magic Penetration, Mana Regeneration +55 Ability Power +45 Move Speed. +150% Mana Regeneration
Magic Break: +8% Magic Penetration.
Big Bully: Attacks and active abilities deal 18 bonus physical damage to minions. 1400
Boots of Mana TIPS: These boots are perfect for mages who need extra mana regeneration and enhanced spell power. They provide bonuses to ability power, movement speed, and greatly speed up mana recovery. The “Magic Break” passive increases your spell effectiveness with bonus magic penetration, while “Big Bully” accelerates waveclear by dealing bonus physical damage to minions with attacks and active abilities. These boots are ideal for mid laners and supports who rely on mana for constant ability usage and want to farm waves more efficiently.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Stoneplate Enchant
Shield
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a shield that absorbs 28% of your max Health. The shield decays over 4 seconds. (60s Cooldown) Fore every enemy nearby, gain an additional shield that absorbs damage equal to 10% of max Health, capped at 3 shields. Damage dealt is reduced by 40% for 4 seconds. If the shield breaks early, damage reduction will end. 500
Stoneplate Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants you a substantial shield based on your max health, growing stronger for each nearby enemy, and significantly reduces incoming damage while active. Perfect for tanks looking to initiate fights and absorb heavy damage in the midst of multiple foes.
Searing Crown (Attacks and damaging abilities burn enemies) as your first item, followed by Boots of Mana (Grants Ability Power, Magic Penetration and Mana Regeneration) or Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is Sunfire Aegis (Burns nearby emenies).
Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in
Stoneplate Enchant (Gain a Shield).
The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Searing Crown
Attacks and damaging abilities burn enemies +300 Max Health +50 Armor
Fiery Touch: After dealing damage with an attack or ability, burn target for 3 seconds, dealing 1.4% of the target’s maximum health as magic damage per second (damage reduced to 0.8% for ranged users).
Deals 150% damage to minions and monsters.
Maximum 125 damage to monsters. 2700
Searing Crown TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to combine high survivability with bonus health-percentage damage. It provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Fiery Touch” passive burns targets on hit with attacks or abilities, dealing magic damage equal to a percentage of their maximum health. This makes it effective against tanks and high-health champions, while also speeding up waveclear and jungle clear. Ideal for tanks and bruisers who want to leave a mark in fights while staying durable.
Boots of Mana
Ability Power, Magic Penetration, Mana Regeneration +55 Ability Power +45 Move Speed. +150% Mana Regeneration
Magic Break: +8% Magic Penetration.
Big Bully: Attacks and active abilities deal 18 bonus physical damage to minions. 1400
Boots of Mana TIPS: These boots are perfect for mages who need extra mana regeneration and enhanced spell power. They provide bonuses to ability power, movement speed, and greatly speed up mana recovery. The “Magic Break” passive increases your spell effectiveness with bonus magic penetration, while “Big Bully” accelerates waveclear by dealing bonus physical damage to minions with attacks and active abilities. These boots are ideal for mid laners and supports who rely on mana for constant ability usage and want to farm waves more efficiently.
Sunfire Aegis
Burns nearby emenies +500 Max Health +15 Ability Haste
Immolate: Deals 16-25 magic damage + 0.8% bonus HP per second to nearby enemies. Damaging champions or epic monsters with Immolate increases its damage by 11% for 5s, stacking up to 4 times.
Flametouch: At max Immolate stacks, attacks burn enemies around you for 50% of Immolate's damage over 3 seconds. Immolate deals 130% damage to monsters and 175-250% () damage to minions. 2900
Sunfire Aegis TIPS: This item is ideal for champions who need high survivability and constant close-range damage. It greatly increases your maximum health and provides ability haste, helping you stay in fights longer. The “Immolate” passive deals magic damage per second to nearby enemies, and each hit on champions or epic monsters increases its damage for a short duration, stacking up to four times. At maximum stacks, the “Flametouch” effect causes your basic attacks to burn enemies around you, dealing a portion of the zone’s damage. This makes the item a great choice for tanks and fighters who frequently find themselves in the thick of battle and want to combine defense with sustained AOE damage.
Psychic Projector
Converts bonus Health into Ability Power +300 Max Health +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +15 Ability Haste
Conversion: Gain Ability Power equal to 4% of bonus Health. Up to 60 Ability Power can be gained this way.
Projection: When taking champion damage, gain a non-tacking shield that absorbs damage equal to 30 + 10% AP+ 5% bonus HPfor 3 seconds (for ranged champions, the shield absorbs damage equal 60% of this value).
Triggered every 3 seconds. 3100
Psychic Projector TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to increase the damage of their abilities based on health while also gaining useful defensive characteristics to enhance survivability. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Conversion" effect grants ability power equal to 4% of bonus health, allowing you to deal more damage than with standard builds. The "Projection" effect generates a shield that absorbs damage based on your health and ability power, and it activates every time you take damage from an enemy champion. This item is especially useful for melee champions who can make effective use of the increased survivability and enhanced damage.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Kaenic Rookern
Gains a magic shield when out of combat +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +75 Magic Resistance
Magebane: After not taking magic damage for 12 seconds, gain a magic shield that absorbs damage equal to 70-180 + 10% of max Health. 2800
Kaenic Rookern TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Situational items
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Crown of the Shattered Queen — This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage +250 Max Health +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 20 + 0.5%+ 0.4% of enemy's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds. 3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Liandry's Torment — This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed +80 Armor +200 Max Mana +25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks. 2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Frozen Heart — This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability +60 Armor +60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor by 30% and Magic Resistance by 30% until out of combat with champion. 3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Amaranth's Twinguard — This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.Summoner Spells
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and 
Smite as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Smite
Deal 600 true damage to monsters, epic monsters or enemy minions, and restore 127 Health (70 + 10%) when smite a monster. Smite can be upgraded to Chilling Smite after being used 3 times.
Jungle Expertise:
+20% bonus gold and 20% bonus XP from jungle monsters, but temporarily earn 60% less gold and XP from minions.
+15% bonus basic attack damage and +30% bonus ability damage to jungle monsters.
Restore 40 Health over 5 seconds when dealing damage to jungle monsters.
Restore 4 Mana every second while in the jungle or river.
Gains one charge every 45 seconds, up to a max of 2.
Cooldown: 10s
Сhilling Smite
Deal 800 true damage to a large or epic monster or minion. Smiting monsters restore 152 Health (70 + 10%).
Against champions: Deal 70 true damage (38 to 184) ato enemy Champions and steals 25% of their Movement Speed for 2 seconds.
Cooldown: 10s
Runes BUILD
Aftershock (After immobilizing an enemy champion, gain defenses and later deal a burst of magic damage around you.) as your keystone, followed by 
Courage of the Colossus (Gains a shield after immobilizing an enemy champions.), 
Bone Plating (Reduces incoming damage.) and 
Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the primary tree, as well as 
Transcendence (Grants more Ability Haste the higher your level is and also returns ability cooldown duration.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Aftershock
Control, Offense
After immobilizing an enemy champion, gain defenses and later deal a burst of magic damage around you.
Defenses: 35 + 80% bonus and 35 + 80% bonus for 2.5s.
Damage: 25~125 () + 3% max, magic damage.
Cooldown: 20s
Courage of the Colossus
Shield
Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45 () + 1% of max Health for 3s when immobilizing an enemy champion.
Cooldown: 10s
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Transcendence
CDR
Gain a bonus when reaching the following levels:
At level 1, gain 6 Ability Haste;
at level 6, gain bonus 6 Ability Haste;
at level 9, after Basic Ability hit the target, reduce 10% the ability's cooldown time.
Cooldown: 8s
Situational Runes
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Second Wind
Heal after taking damage
Gain 5 Health every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health) over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Second Wind — The rune restores health every 5 seconds and significantly boosts regeneration after taking damage from an enemy champion. This rune is especially useful for champions who are often in the thick of the fight, such as tanks or fighters, as it helps sustain health during battles. The effect is doubled for melee champions, making it even more effective in extended fights, improving survivability.
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Perseverance
Armor and Magic Resistance, Tenacity
Gain 10% Tenacity. When immobilized, gain 16-30 Armor and Magic Resistance () for 1.5 seconds. Refresh duration time when immobilized multiple times.
Perseverance — The rune increases your tenacity by 10%. When immobilized, it grants you bonus armor and magic resistance for a short period. The effect refreshes if you are immobilized multiple times, making the rune especially useful for champions who often find themselves under crowd control. It is ideal for tanks and fighters, enhancing their survivability in fights when they are subjected to multiple crowd control effects.Skills Order
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
8/7/6/5s 60
Smashes his fist into the ground, unleashing a shockwave that deals 60 magic damage (60/115/170/225 + 50% ) plus 2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's max Health and slows them briefly for 0.25 seconds. Nearby enemies are also knocked back.
Deals 120 bonus damage to monsters.
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
14/13/12/11s 60
Transforms into a moving mass of roots, becoming untargetable and dashing to an enemy champion target. Upon arriver, he roots them for 0.8/0.95/1.1/1.25 seconds and deals 60 magic damage (60/95/130/165 + 50% ).
Deals 180% damage to monsters.
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
(E) SAPLING TOSS
12s 45
Flings a sapling, which stands watch at where it lands for 20 seconds. Saplings chase nearby enemies, detonating on arrival to deal 60 magic damage (60/90/120/150 + 25% + 6% bonus ) and slow nearby enemies by 30% for 2 seconds.
If placed in brush, saplings stand watch for 30 seconds and cause a larger explosion upon catching up to targets, dealing 200% magic damage and slowing enemies hit by 30% (+1.5% per 100 bonus and +1% per 100 bonus ) for 3 seconds.
Saplings deal 130% damage to minions regardless of whether they are placed in brush or not.
Saplings deal a maximum of 300 damage to monsters.
(E) SAPLING TOSS
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
75/70/65s 100
Summons a slow-moving colossal wave of brambles, dealing 175 magic damage (200/250/325 + 65% ) and rooting enemies hit for 0.8 seconds. Root duration increases with distance traveled by the brambles.
Hitting an enemy champion with this ability grants Maokai 40/50/60% Movement Speed, which decays over 2 seconds. Hitting a new target refreshes this duration.
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
Jungle MAOKAI Counters
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Jungle MAOKAI. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
Threats
Synergies
Jungle MAOKAI Counter Items
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Jungle MAOKAI in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Magic Resist
Items with magic resistance can help you to survive against MAOKAI combo.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Spirit Visage
Increases healing and shielding received +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +50 Magic Resistance +20 Ability Haste
Blessed: Increases all healing, regen, drain effects and shields on yourself by 30%. 2800
Spirit Visage TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, regeneration, magic resistance, and ability haste. Its “Blessed” passive amplifies all healing, regen, drain effects, and shields on you by 30%, allowing you to recover more quickly in fights. It’s an excellent choice against champions who deal sustained magic damage, like Vladimir and Swain, as well as burst mages like Syndra or Veigar, helping you survive initial bursts and heal up rapidly.
Force of Nature
Stacking Magic Resist and Move Speed +350 Max Health +55 Magic Resistance
Storm: +5% Move Speed.
Absorb: Taking ability damage from enemy champions grants 1 stack(s) of Steadfast for 7 seconds, max 4 stacks. Receiving damage from an enemy Champion will refresh the duration of the stacks. At maximum stacks, gain 10% Movement Speed and reduce all incoming magic damage by 25%. 2750
Force of Nature TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and magic resistance, and its “Absorb” passive stacks up when you take ability damage from enemy champions, reducing all incoming magic damage and granting bonus movement speed at max stacks. It’s perfect for tanks who need to withstand teams heavy in magic damage and maintain mobility to be in the right position during fights. Pick this up when the enemy team builds magic damage (e.g., Syndra, Brand) and you need extra movement speed to initiate effectively or escape dangerous situations.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield
+55 Attack Damage +45 Magic Resistance +10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage. The shield decays by 5% per second. 3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Wit's End
Basic Attack deals Bonus Damage
+45% Attack Speed +45 Magic Resistance
At Wit's End: Basic attacks deal 15-65 bonus magic damage. While below 50% Health, dealing damage to an enemy champion heals you for (Melee 100%/Range 33%) of this effect's post-mitigation damage. 2700
Wit's End TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to deal sustained damage and have some defensive stats against magic damage threats. It provides bonuses to attack speed and magic resistance, as well as adding magic damage to your auto-attacks, making it effective against magic-based threats. The "While below 50% Health" effect heals you when dealing damage to an enemy champion, increasing survivability in fights. This item is especially useful for champions like Vayne, Irelia, or Master Yi, who can benefit from its on-hit magic damage and health restoration effect.
Reduced 
Healing
Items with Grievous Wounds that can reduce MAOKAI Healing effects.
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380 ) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Executioner's Calling
Physical Damage reduces enemy healing +15 Attack Damage
Rend: Physical Damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds. Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Oblivion Orb
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +30 Ability Power
Cursed: Magic damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing +30 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
Last Whisper: 
+33% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is a must-have against champions who rely heavily on healing or regeneration, such as Soraka, Yuumi, Dr. Mundo, or Vladimir. It provides bonuses to attack damage, critical strike chance, and armor penetration, making it effective against tanks and champions with high healing. The Sepsis effect applies Grievous Wounds to enemy champions, reducing the effectiveness of their healing and regeneration, giving you a significant advantage in fights against those champions.
Chempunk Chainsword
Reduces enemy healing +250 Max Health +45 Attack Damage +15 Ability Haste
Punishment: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2800
Chempunk Chainsword TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +150 Max Health +70 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +20 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2500
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
% Health Damage
Items that can help to deal with high Health points tanks.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks +425 Max Health +25 Attack Damage +25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum damage equal to 125% base AD and a maximum damage against monsters equal to 225% base AD.
If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health and a minimum heal equal to (90% melee / 50% ranged) base AD (1.5 second cooldown, begins after using the empowered attack).
Limitations: Limited to 1 sheen item. 3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who actively use their abilities and auto-attacks to deal damage, such as fighters. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and ability haste, helping to improve survivability and increase damage. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage based on the target’s maximum health after using an ability, and also heal when attacking enemy champions. This item helps you deal damage and sustain in fights, making it especially useful for extended engagements.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage +250 Max Health +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 20 + 0.5%+ 0.4% of enemy's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds. 3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage +25 Attack Damage +35% Attack Speed
Thirst:
+10% Physical Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 6% of the enemy's current Health on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 9%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown) 3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a great source of sustain with its lifesteal, but it is mostly picked for its ability to cut through tanks or champions who heavily stack health, like Dr. Mundo. "Ruined Strikes" deals bonus physical damage based on the enemy's current health, which helps break through high health pools. The "Drain" effect reduces the enemy's movement speed, deals bonus magic damage, and steals part of their speed, making it useful for maneuvering in fights and reducing the mobility of enemies.
Cleanse or Block Spells
Items with ability or property to cleanse or block negative spells.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Quicksilver Enchant
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.75 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): After the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects. 800
Quicksilver Enchant TIPS: This enchant cleanses all crowd control effects, grants brief CC immunity, then boosts your tenacity and slow resist. Perfect for champions who need to quickly purge control to stay in the fight.
Edge of Night
Blocks an enemy ability +250 Max Health +50 Attack Damage
Gouge: +8 Armor Penetration.
Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability. This spell shield refreshes upon leaving combat with enemy champions. (35 second cooldown) 3150
Edge of Night TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a mix of offense and defense. It provides bonuses to maximum health and attack damage, along with increased armor penetration to help you shred through enemy defenses. The "Annul" effect grants you a spell shield, blocking the next enemy ability. This spell shield refreshes when leaving combat with enemy champions, making the item a great choice for champions who need protection from crowd control and to engage in fights, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Jungle MAOKAI Strengths and Weaknesses
Jungle MAOKAI Strategy and Tactics
Jungle MAOKAI Power Spikes
MAOKAI Jungle Pathing
Jungle Pathing represents the choices Junglers make in regards to when and where to gank. These choices include how they involve farming camps and buffs between their ganks, anticipating counterganks, and looking for opportunities to invade. It involves understanding the different abilities the champions in the game have and how they interact, as well as the overall interactions between the two team compositions.
full clear with a lvl 3 gank from a Raptor start
Gromp
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Blue Sentinel
Large Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 150 second(s).
The Blue Sentinel, sometimes called the blue buff, is a common starting monster for junglers thanks to its powerful Crest of Insight buff.
REWARDS
Upon dealing the killing blow to the Blue Sentinel, the player will receive the Crest of Insight Buff effect that lasts 90 seconds. Recover an amount of Mana or Energy every second.
Get 15 Ability Haste.
When a player who possesses the Crest of Insight buff is defeated by an enemy champion, the buff is transferred to the champion who defeated that player.
Greater Murk Wolf
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
Wolves tend to be easier and safer to bees at than other monsters. They are commonly s ight by junglers when passing by or while the higher priority monsters are respawning.
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Crimson Raptor
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
Crimson raptors deal surprising damage t but the small ones can be quickly dispatched. Junglers commonly seek them out while pre| to gank the middle lane or while waiting for hi; priority monsters to spawn.
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Red Brambleback
Large Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 150 second(s).
After completing the final strike to the Red Brambleback, you can obtain the Crest of Cinders buff effect; when the player with this buff is defeated, the buff effect will be transferred to the enemy champion who defeated them.
REWARDS
Upon dealing the killing blow to the Red Brambleback, the player will receive the Crest of Cinders Buff that lasts 90 seconds.
For Melee Champions, basic attacks burn targets on hit, reducing their movement speed by 20% for 3 seconds, and dealing True Damage every second. For non-Champion units, this only deals 50% of the burn damage.
For Ranged Champions, basic attacks burn targets on hit, reducing their Movement Speed by 6% for 3 seconds, and dealing True Damage every second. For non-Champion units, this only deals 50% of the burn damage.
When a player who possesses the Crest of Cinders buff is defeated by an enemy champion, the bufs is transferred to the champion who defeated player.
Ancient Krug
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
Ancient Krugs split into two upon defeat until they are so small they can split no more. Junglers oftem fight these monsters for extra gold and XP while waiting for gank opportunities or higher priority monster spawns.
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Rift Scuttler
Large Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 85 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 120 second(s).
REWARDS
The Rift Scuttler grants XP and gold on takedown. A Speed Shrine also spawns at a fixed location on the same side of the river which provides the following buffs to your team:
Grants vision of the area.
Vision radius: 4.5m. Enemy champions who pass through this area will be maked and revealed.
Allied champions who pass through the area receive a 40% out-of-co Movement Speed boost for 2 second(s).
The Pro Maokai Jungle Path is a route that optimizes Maokai's abilities for a full clear but with an early level 3 gank. Start by unlocking (Q) BRAMBLE SMASH as your first ability. This will provide you with AoE damage and crowd control to efficiently clear the Raptors without needing a leash. As you clear Raptors, you'll reach level two and unlock (E) SAPLING TOSS. Next, move to the Red Brambleback camp. After Red Brambleback, proceed to the Krugs camp and upon finishing the Krugs camp, you should reach level three and unlock (W) TWISTED ADVANCE. (W) TWISTED ADVANCE is a valuable tool for ganking, providing gap-closing and crowd control. Proceed with a level three gank onto the lane connected to your Krugs. After the gank, recall back to base to replenish health and mana, and purchase items if necessary. Once you return to the jungle, proceed to clear the Murk Wolves, Blue Sentinel, and Gromp camps on the Blue side. Reaching level four, upgrade (Q) BRAMBLE SMASH and head to the river to secure the Rift Scuttler after which you can look for opportunities to gank a nearby lane.
This Pro Maokai Jungle Path emphasizes a methodical approach to clearing camps and utilizing ganking opportunities to apply early pressure on the map.
Support MAOKAI Build items and runes
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Support Line MAOKAI. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Key items
Relic Shield (Kill minions to earn bonus gold). Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Relic Shield
Kill minions to earn bonus gold +100 Max Health
This item is for support players. When equipped, it will reduce the gold you receive from killing minions and monsters. If there are multiples of this item within the party, only one of them can take effect at any given time.
Spoils of War: Gains 1 charge(s) every 30 seconds (up to 3 times). Attacking enemy minions consumes 1 charge(s) and executes minions whose Health are below 65%, granting your teammates the entire bounty, while granting you 65 bonus gold and restoring your Health by 15-65.
While you will not participate in the resulting minion bounty sharing, you will personally receive gold equal to 50% of the bounty. Your share of the bounty from the minion kill will be entirely given to nearby teammates.
Also reduces monster bounties by 50%.
Deal 1 more damage to Sight Wards revealed by Sweeping Lens, Control Ward, and Scryer's Bloom.
Quest: Earn 750 gold with this item to transform it into Bulwark of the Mountain. 500
Bulwark of the Mountain
Kill minions to earn bonus gold +175 Max Health +10 Ability Haste
Every 60 seconds, gains 75 gold and 1 stacks of soulforce (up to 10 stacks). Each stack of soulforce grants 25 Health, 2 Attack Damage, or 4 Ability Power (Adaptive).
Deal 2 more damage to Sight Wards revealed by Sweeping Lens, Control Ward, and Scryer's Bloom. 0
Bulwark of the Mountain TIPS: This item is designed for support players and grants passive gold income every 60 seconds along with Soulforce stacks that boost your health, attack damage, or ability power. At 10 stacks, you gain a significant adaptive stat bonus. While it reduces gold from killing minions and monsters, it accelerates your team’s economic pace. An additional effect deals extra damage to revealed Sight Wards, making it easier to clear vision and maintain map control.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage +150 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Armor +45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken by 7-10% (). 1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against physical damage and extra durability. They provide bonuses to health, regeneration, and armor, along with increased movement speed. The “Block” passive reduces incoming physical damage, helping you stay in fights longer and fulfill your frontline role. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often absorb basic attacks and physical damage from enemies.
Heartsteel
Increase Maximum Health +700 Max Health +150% Health Regen +20 Ability Haste
Colossal Consumption: While within 700 units of an enemy champion, charges for 2.5 seconds before dealing a huge strike against the enemy champion. This charged attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 140 + 3.5% of maximum Health, and grants maximum Health equal to 15% of the damage dealt. The charge for each target has a 20 second cooldown. 3000
Heartsteel TIPS: This item is perfect for tanks and bruisers who want to combine maximum survivability with massive burst damage against enemy champions. It provides a huge health pool, enhanced out-of-combat regeneration, and ability haste. The “Colossal Consumption” passive requires a 2.5-second charge when near an enemy champion, after which your next strike deals significant bonus physical damage based on your max health and grants you 15% of the damage dealt as bonus health. This allows you to both absorb damage and heal during skirmishes, making the item an excellent choice for extended fights and closing out teamfights. Excellent synergy with Spirit Visage: the healing amplification and regeneration boost from Spirit Visage further enhance the health restoration from this item’s passive, providing incredible survivability and sustain in combat.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage +150 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Armor +45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken by 7-10% (). 1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against physical damage and extra durability. They provide bonuses to health, regeneration, and armor, along with increased movement speed. The “Block” passive reduces incoming physical damage, helping you stay in fights longer and fulfill your frontline role. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often absorb basic attacks and physical damage from enemies.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Locket Enchant
Area of effect magic shield
Locket (Active): Grants a shield to yourself and nearby allied champions that each absorbs 60-330 damage for 2.5 seconds. (60s cooldown)
This effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Locket in the last 20 seconds. 500
Locket Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants a magic shield to you and nearby allies, absorbing damage for a brief duration. The shield is ideal in large teamfights, providing extra protection and opportunities for counterplay. Perfect for tanks who frequently stand in the thick of battle and want to safeguard their team during critical moments.
Bulwark of the Mountain (Kill minions to earn bonus gold) as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps (Reduces Physical Damage) or Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is Heartsteel (Increase Maximum Health).
Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in
Locket Enchant (Area of effect magic shield).
The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Bulwark of the Mountain
Kill minions to earn bonus gold +175 Max Health +10 Ability Haste
Every 60 seconds, gains 75 gold and 1 stacks of soulforce (up to 10 stacks). Each stack of soulforce grants 25 Health, 2 Attack Damage, or 4 Ability Power (Adaptive).
Deal 2 more damage to Sight Wards revealed by Sweeping Lens, Control Ward, and Scryer's Bloom. 0
Bulwark of the Mountain TIPS: This item is designed for support players and grants passive gold income every 60 seconds along with Soulforce stacks that boost your health, attack damage, or ability power. At 10 stacks, you gain a significant adaptive stat bonus. While it reduces gold from killing minions and monsters, it accelerates your team’s economic pace. An additional effect deals extra damage to revealed Sight Wards, making it easier to clear vision and maintain map control.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage +150 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Armor +45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken by 7-10% (). 1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against physical damage and extra durability. They provide bonuses to health, regeneration, and armor, along with increased movement speed. The “Block” passive reduces incoming physical damage, helping you stay in fights longer and fulfill your frontline role. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often absorb basic attacks and physical damage from enemies.
Heartsteel
Increase Maximum Health +700 Max Health +150% Health Regen +20 Ability Haste
Colossal Consumption: While within 700 units of an enemy champion, charges for 2.5 seconds before dealing a huge strike against the enemy champion. This charged attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 140 + 3.5% of maximum Health, and grants maximum Health equal to 15% of the damage dealt. The charge for each target has a 20 second cooldown. 3000
Heartsteel TIPS: This item is perfect for tanks and bruisers who want to combine maximum survivability with massive burst damage against enemy champions. It provides a huge health pool, enhanced out-of-combat regeneration, and ability haste. The “Colossal Consumption” passive requires a 2.5-second charge when near an enemy champion, after which your next strike deals significant bonus physical damage based on your max health and grants you 15% of the damage dealt as bonus health. This allows you to both absorb damage and heal during skirmishes, making the item an excellent choice for extended fights and closing out teamfights. Excellent synergy with Spirit Visage: the healing amplification and regeneration boost from Spirit Visage further enhance the health restoration from this item’s passive, providing incredible survivability and sustain in combat.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability +60 Armor +60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor by 30% and Magic Resistance by 30% until out of combat with champion. 3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed +80 Armor +200 Max Mana +25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks. 2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Kaenic Rookern
Gains a magic shield when out of combat +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +75 Magic Resistance
Magebane: After not taking magic damage for 12 seconds, gain a magic shield that absorbs damage equal to 70-180 + 10% of max Health. 2800
Kaenic Rookern TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Situational items
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability +60 Armor +60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor by 30% and Magic Resistance by 30% until out of combat with champion. 3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Warmog's Armor
Out of combat Heath Regen +700 Max Health +200% Health Regen +10 Ability Haste
Warmog's Heart: If you have at least 950 bonus Health, restore 4.5% Health per second if you haven't taken damage within the last 6 seconds. 2850
Warmog's Armor TIPS: This item grants a massive boost to health and greatly enhances out-of-combat regeneration, restoring 4.5% of your maximum health per second if you haven’t taken damage for 6 seconds. It also provides ability haste, allowing you to use your skills more often. This makes it an excellent late-game choice when you need high survivability and sustained healing, especially against teams and champions that deal damage over time, like Singed or Swain. It pairs exceptionally well with Spirit Visage: the healing amplification and increased regeneration from Spirit Visage stack with Warmog’s out-of-combat life regen, giving you an enormous health pool and unmatched sustain both in fights and while recovering between engagements.
Warmog's Armor — This item grants a massive boost to health and greatly enhances out-of-combat regeneration, restoring 4.5% of your maximum health per second if you haven’t taken damage for 6 seconds. It also provides ability haste, allowing you to use your skills more often. This makes it an excellent late-game choice when you need high survivability and sustained healing, especially against teams and champions that deal damage over time, like Singed or Swain. It pairs exceptionally well with Spirit Visage: the healing amplification and increased regeneration from Spirit Visage stack with Warmog’s out-of-combat life regen, giving you an enormous health pool and unmatched sustain both in fights and while recovering between engagements.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed +80 Armor +200 Max Mana +25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks. 2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Thornmail — This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed +80 Armor +200 Max Mana +25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks. 2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field +250 Max Health +50 Armor +250 Max Mana +30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD + 25% Bonus Armor ) in an area. It also creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows enemies inside by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures. 3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Iceborn Gauntlet — This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.Summoner Spells
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and 
Heal (Restore Health to you and the most wounded nearby ally champion) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Heal
Restore 110 Health (110–400 ) to you and the most wounded nearby ally champion, and grants both of you 30% bonus Movement Speed for 2 second(s).
Healing is halved for champions recently affected by Heal.
Cooldown: 100s
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380 ) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Runes BUILD
Glacial Augment (After immobilizing an enemy champion, fires a beam that reduces their Movement Speed.) as your keystone, followed by Courage of the Colossus (Gains a shield after immobilizing an enemy champions.), Bone Plating (Reduces incoming damage.) and Perseverance (Gains Tenacity also gains Armor and Magic Resist when immobilizing.) in the primary tree, as well as 
Hextech Flashtraption (Able to dash multiple times even after using Flash.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Glacial Augment
Applies Slow
Landing an attack on an enemy champion reduces their Movement Speed by 20% for 1.5s. This effect only affects each champion up to a maximum of 1 time(s) within 10s. Immobilizing an enemy champion triggers 3 glacial rays that radiate toward you, creating a frozen region that lasts for 3s. The region slows enemies within it by (1.5% of your bonus Health + 20%). and reduces the damage that they deal by 12%. The slow effect will persist for 1.5s even after they leave the frozen region.
Cooldown: 20s
Courage of the Colossus
Shield
Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45 () + 1% of max Health for 3s when immobilizing an enemy champion.
Cooldown: 10s
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Perseverance
Armor and Magic Resistance, Tenacity
Gain 10% Tenacity. When immobilized, gain 16-30 Armor and Magic Resistance () for 1.5 seconds. Refresh duration time when immobilized multiple times.
Hextech Flashtraption
Dash
Replaces this item with Hexflash while Flash is still on cooldown. You can blink to a new location after channeling for 2s. When channeled for less than 1s, you will dash the distance as if you channeled for 1s.
Cooldown: 25s
Skills Order
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
8/7/6/5s 60
Smashes his fist into the ground, unleashing a shockwave that deals 60 magic damage (60/115/170/225 + 50% ) plus 2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's max Health and slows them briefly for 0.25 seconds. Nearby enemies are also knocked back.
Deals 120 bonus damage to monsters.
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
14/13/12/11s 60
Transforms into a moving mass of roots, becoming untargetable and dashing to an enemy champion target. Upon arriver, he roots them for 0.8/0.95/1.1/1.25 seconds and deals 60 magic damage (60/95/130/165 + 50% ).
Deals 180% damage to monsters.
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
(E) SAPLING TOSS
12s 45
Flings a sapling, which stands watch at where it lands for 20 seconds. Saplings chase nearby enemies, detonating on arrival to deal 60 magic damage (60/90/120/150 + 25% + 6% bonus ) and slow nearby enemies by 30% for 2 seconds.
If placed in brush, saplings stand watch for 30 seconds and cause a larger explosion upon catching up to targets, dealing 200% magic damage and slowing enemies hit by 30% (+1.5% per 100 bonus and +1% per 100 bonus ) for 3 seconds.
Saplings deal 130% damage to minions regardless of whether they are placed in brush or not.
Saplings deal a maximum of 300 damage to monsters.
(E) SAPLING TOSS
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
75/70/65s 100
Summons a slow-moving colossal wave of brambles, dealing 175 magic damage (200/250/325 + 65% ) and rooting enemies hit for 0.8 seconds. Root duration increases with distance traveled by the brambles.
Hitting an enemy champion with this ability grants Maokai 40/50/60% Movement Speed, which decays over 2 seconds. Hitting a new target refreshes this duration.
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
Support MAOKAI Counters
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Support MAOKAI. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
Threats
Synergies
Support MAOKAI Counter Items
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Support MAOKAI in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Magic Resist
Items with magic resistance can help you to survive against MAOKAI combo.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Spirit Visage
Increases healing and shielding received +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +50 Magic Resistance +20 Ability Haste
Blessed: Increases all healing, regen, drain effects and shields on yourself by 30%. 2800
Spirit Visage TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, regeneration, magic resistance, and ability haste. Its “Blessed” passive amplifies all healing, regen, drain effects, and shields on you by 30%, allowing you to recover more quickly in fights. It’s an excellent choice against champions who deal sustained magic damage, like Vladimir and Swain, as well as burst mages like Syndra or Veigar, helping you survive initial bursts and heal up rapidly.
Force of Nature
Stacking Magic Resist and Move Speed +350 Max Health +55 Magic Resistance
Storm: +5% Move Speed.
Absorb: Taking ability damage from enemy champions grants 1 stack(s) of Steadfast for 7 seconds, max 4 stacks. Receiving damage from an enemy Champion will refresh the duration of the stacks. At maximum stacks, gain 10% Movement Speed and reduce all incoming magic damage by 25%. 2750
Force of Nature TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and magic resistance, and its “Absorb” passive stacks up when you take ability damage from enemy champions, reducing all incoming magic damage and granting bonus movement speed at max stacks. It’s perfect for tanks who need to withstand teams heavy in magic damage and maintain mobility to be in the right position during fights. Pick this up when the enemy team builds magic damage (e.g., Syndra, Brand) and you need extra movement speed to initiate effectively or escape dangerous situations.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield +55 Attack Damage +45 Magic Resistance +10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage. The shield decays by 5% per second. 3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Wit's End
Basic Attack deals Bonus Damage +45% Attack Speed +45 Magic Resistance
At Wit's End: Basic attacks deal 15-65 bonus magic damage. While below 50% Health, dealing damage to an enemy champion heals you for (Melee 100%/Range 33%) of this effect's post-mitigation damage. 2700
Wit's End TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to deal sustained damage and have some defensive stats against magic damage threats. It provides bonuses to attack speed and magic resistance, as well as adding magic damage to your auto-attacks, making it effective against magic-based threats. The "While below 50% Health" effect heals you when dealing damage to an enemy champion, increasing survivability in fights. This item is especially useful for champions like Vayne, Irelia, or Master Yi, who can benefit from its on-hit magic damage and health restoration effect.
Reduced Healing
Items with Grievous Wounds that can reduce MAOKAI Healing effects.
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380 ) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Executioner's Calling
Physical Damage reduces enemy healing +15 Attack Damage
Rend: Physical Damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds. Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Oblivion Orb
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +30 Ability Power
Cursed: Magic damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing +30 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Last Whisper: +33% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is a must-have against champions who rely heavily on healing or regeneration, such as Soraka, Yuumi, Dr. Mundo, or Vladimir. It provides bonuses to attack damage, critical strike chance, and armor penetration, making it effective against tanks and champions with high healing. The Sepsis effect applies Grievous Wounds to enemy champions, reducing the effectiveness of their healing and regeneration, giving you a significant advantage in fights against those champions.
Chempunk Chainsword
Reduces enemy healing +250 Max Health +45 Attack Damage +15 Ability Haste
Punishment: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2800
Chempunk Chainsword TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +150 Max Health +70 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +20 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2500
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
% Health Damage
Items that can help to deal with high Health points tanks.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks +425 Max Health +25 Attack Damage +25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum damage equal to 125% base AD and a maximum damage against monsters equal to 225% base AD.
If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health and a minimum heal equal to (90% melee / 50% ranged) base AD (1.5 second cooldown, begins after using the empowered attack).
Limitations: Limited to 1 sheen item. 3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who actively use their abilities and auto-attacks to deal damage, such as fighters. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and ability haste, helping to improve survivability and increase damage. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage based on the target’s maximum health after using an ability, and also heal when attacking enemy champions. This item helps you deal damage and sustain in fights, making it especially useful for extended engagements.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage +250 Max Health +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 20 + 0.5%+ 0.4% of enemy's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds. 3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage +25 Attack Damage +35% Attack Speed
Thirst:+10% Physical Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 6% of the enemy's current Health on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 9%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown) 3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a great source of sustain with its lifesteal, but it is mostly picked for its ability to cut through tanks or champions who heavily stack health, like Dr. Mundo. "Ruined Strikes" deals bonus physical damage based on the enemy's current health, which helps break through high health pools. The "Drain" effect reduces the enemy's movement speed, deals bonus magic damage, and steals part of their speed, making it useful for maneuvering in fights and reducing the mobility of enemies.
Cleanse or Block Spells
Items with ability or property to cleanse or block negative spells.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Quicksilver Enchant
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.75 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): After the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects. 800
Quicksilver Enchant TIPS: This enchant cleanses all crowd control effects, grants brief CC immunity, then boosts your tenacity and slow resist. Perfect for champions who need to quickly purge control to stay in the fight.
Edge of Night
Blocks an enemy ability +250 Max Health +50 Attack Damage
Gouge: +8 Armor Penetration.
Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability. This spell shield refreshes upon leaving combat with enemy champions. (35 second cooldown) 3150
Edge of Night TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a mix of offense and defense. It provides bonuses to maximum health and attack damage, along with increased armor penetration to help you shred through enemy defenses. The "Annul" effect grants you a spell shield, blocking the next enemy ability. This spell shield refreshes when leaving combat with enemy champions, making the item a great choice for champions who need protection from crowd control and to engage in fights, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Support MAOKAI Strengths and Weaknesses
Support MAOKAI Strategy and Tactics
Solo Baron MAOKAI Build items and runes
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Solo Baron Line MAOKAI. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Key items
Shimmering Spark (Burns nearby enemies). Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Shimmering Spark
Burns nearby enemies +50 Max Health
Immolate: Deals 5-10 magic damage per second to nearby enemies. 500
Heartsteel
Increase Maximum Health +700 Max Health +150% Health Regen +20 Ability Haste
Colossal Consumption: While within 700 units of an enemy champion, charges for 2.5 seconds before dealing a huge strike against the enemy champion. This charged attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 140 + 3.5% of maximum Health, and grants maximum Health equal to 15% of the damage dealt. The charge for each target has a 20 second cooldown. 3000
Heartsteel TIPS: This item is perfect for tanks and bruisers who want to combine maximum survivability with massive burst damage against enemy champions. It provides a huge health pool, enhanced out-of-combat regeneration, and ability haste. The “Colossal Consumption” passive requires a 2.5-second charge when near an enemy champion, after which your next strike deals significant bonus physical damage based on your max health and grants you 15% of the damage dealt as bonus health. This allows you to both absorb damage and heal during skirmishes, making the item an excellent choice for extended fights and closing out teamfights. Excellent synergy with Spirit Visage: the healing amplification and regeneration boost from Spirit Visage further enhance the health restoration from this item’s passive, providing incredible survivability and sustain in combat.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage +150 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Armor +45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken by 7-10% (). 1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against physical damage and extra durability. They provide bonuses to health, regeneration, and armor, along with increased movement speed. The “Block” passive reduces incoming physical damage, helping you stay in fights longer and fulfill your frontline role. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often absorb basic attacks and physical damage from enemies.
Sunfire Aegis
Burns nearby emenies +500 Max Health +15 Ability Haste
Immolate: Deals 16-25 magic damage + 0.8% bonus HP per second to nearby enemies. Damaging champions or epic monsters with Immolate increases its damage by 11% for 5s, stacking up to 4 times.
Flametouch: At max Immolate stacks, attacks burn enemies around you for 50% of Immolate's damage over 3 seconds. Immolate deals 130% damage to monsters and 175-250% () damage to minions. 2900
Sunfire Aegis TIPS: This item is ideal for champions who need high survivability and constant close-range damage. It greatly increases your maximum health and provides ability haste, helping you stay in fights longer. The “Immolate” passive deals magic damage per second to nearby enemies, and each hit on champions or epic monsters increases its damage for a short duration, stacking up to four times. At maximum stacks, the “Flametouch” effect causes your basic attacks to burn enemies around you, dealing a portion of the zone’s damage. This makes the item a great choice for tanks and fighters who frequently find themselves in the thick of battle and want to combine defense with sustained AOE damage.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage +150 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Armor +45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken by 7-10% (). 1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against physical damage and extra durability. They provide bonuses to health, regeneration, and armor, along with increased movement speed. The “Block” passive reduces incoming physical damage, helping you stay in fights longer and fulfill your frontline role. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often absorb basic attacks and physical damage from enemies.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Stoneplate Enchant
Shield
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a shield that absorbs 28% of your max Health. The shield decays over 4 seconds. (60s Cooldown) Fore every enemy nearby, gain an additional shield that absorbs damage equal to 10% of max Health, capped at 3 shields. Damage dealt is reduced by 40% for 4 seconds. If the shield breaks early, damage reduction will end. 500
Stoneplate Enchant TIPS: This enchant grants you a substantial shield based on your max health, growing stronger for each nearby enemy, and significantly reduces incoming damage while active. Perfect for tanks looking to initiate fights and absorb heavy damage in the midst of multiple foes.
Teleport Enchant
Teleport across the map
Teleport (Active): After channeling for 3.5 seconds, teleport your champion to an allied champion, structure, or ward. (180s Cooldown) 800
Teleport Enchant TIPS: This enchant lets you channel for 3.5 seconds to teleport to an allied champion, structure, or ward, enabling surprise ganks or saves. Perfect for solo laners to rapidly return to lane, execute unexpected plays, and control key areas of the map.
Heartsteel (Increase Maximum Health) as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps (Reduces Physical Damage) or Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is Sunfire Aegis (Burns nearby emenies).
Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in
Stoneplate Enchant (Gain a Shield). You may want to replace it with Teleport Enchant (Teleport across the map), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Heartsteel
Increase Maximum Health +700 Max Health +150% Health Regen +20 Ability Haste
Colossal Consumption: While within 700 units of an enemy champion, charges for 2.5 seconds before dealing a huge strike against the enemy champion. This charged attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 140 + 3.5% of maximum Health, and grants maximum Health equal to 15% of the damage dealt. The charge for each target has a 20 second cooldown. 3000
Heartsteel TIPS: This item is perfect for tanks and bruisers who want to combine maximum survivability with massive burst damage against enemy champions. It provides a huge health pool, enhanced out-of-combat regeneration, and ability haste. The “Colossal Consumption” passive requires a 2.5-second charge when near an enemy champion, after which your next strike deals significant bonus physical damage based on your max health and grants you 15% of the damage dealt as bonus health. This allows you to both absorb damage and heal during skirmishes, making the item an excellent choice for extended fights and closing out teamfights. Excellent synergy with Spirit Visage: the healing amplification and regeneration boost from Spirit Visage further enhance the health restoration from this item’s passive, providing incredible survivability and sustain in combat.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage +150 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Armor +45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken by 7-10% (). 1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against physical damage and extra durability. They provide bonuses to health, regeneration, and armor, along with increased movement speed. The “Block” passive reduces incoming physical damage, helping you stay in fights longer and fulfill your frontline role. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often absorb basic attacks and physical damage from enemies.
Sunfire Aegis
Burns nearby emenies +500 Max Health +15 Ability Haste
Immolate: Deals 16-25 magic damage + 0.8% bonus HP per second to nearby enemies. Damaging champions or epic monsters with Immolate increases its damage by 11% for 5s, stacking up to 4 times.
Flametouch: At max Immolate stacks, attacks burn enemies around you for 50% of Immolate's damage over 3 seconds. Immolate deals 130% damage to monsters and 175-250% () damage to minions. 2900
Sunfire Aegis TIPS: This item is ideal for champions who need high survivability and constant close-range damage. It greatly increases your maximum health and provides ability haste, helping you stay in fights longer. The “Immolate” passive deals magic damage per second to nearby enemies, and each hit on champions or epic monsters increases its damage for a short duration, stacking up to four times. At maximum stacks, the “Flametouch” effect causes your basic attacks to burn enemies around you, dealing a portion of the zone’s damage. This makes the item a great choice for tanks and fighters who frequently find themselves in the thick of battle and want to combine defense with sustained AOE damage.
Psychic Projector
Converts bonus Health into Ability Power +300 Max Health +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +15 Ability Haste
Conversion: Gain Ability Power equal to 4% of bonus Health. Up to 60 Ability Power can be gained this way.
Projection: When taking champion damage, gain a non-tacking shield that absorbs damage equal to 30 + 10% AP+ 5% bonus HPfor 3 seconds (for ranged champions, the shield absorbs damage equal 60% of this value).
Triggered every 3 seconds. 3100
Psychic Projector TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to increase the damage of their abilities based on health while also gaining useful defensive characteristics to enhance survivability. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Conversion" effect grants ability power equal to 4% of bonus health, allowing you to deal more damage than with standard builds. The "Projection" effect generates a shield that absorbs damage based on your health and ability power, and it activates every time you take damage from an enemy champion. This item is especially useful for melee champions who can make effective use of the increased survivability and enhanced damage.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Spirit Visage
Increases healing and shielding received +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +50 Magic Resistance +20 Ability Haste
Blessed: Increases all healing, regen, drain effects and shields on yourself by 30%. 2800
Spirit Visage TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, regeneration, magic resistance, and ability haste. Its “Blessed” passive amplifies all healing, regen, drain effects, and shields on you by 30%, allowing you to recover more quickly in fights. It’s an excellent choice against champions who deal sustained magic damage, like Vladimir and Swain, as well as burst mages like Syndra or Veigar, helping you survive initial bursts and heal up rapidly.
Situational items
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage +250 Max Health +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 20 + 0.5%+ 0.4% of enemy's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds. 3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Liandry's Torment — This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Crown of the Shattered Queen — This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Frozen Heart
Reduces all nearby enemies Attack Speed +80 Armor +200 Max Mana +25 Ability Haste
Winter's Caress: Basic attacks and magic damage caused by you or inflicted upon you and nearby allies, will apply stacks of Chill to the enemy champion for 3 seconds. Each stack of Chill slows enemy attack speed by 9%, up to a maximum of 4 stacks or 36% attack speed reduction. Each individual ability has a 3 seconds cooldown on applying Chill stacks. 2700
Frozen Heart TIPS: This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Frozen Heart — This item is ideal for tanks and support champions who need to slow enemy attack speed and maintain a healthy mana pool. It provides substantial bonuses to armor, mana, and ability haste. The “Winter’s Caress” passive applies up to four stacks of Chill on enemy champions through your basic attacks, abilities, or any magic damage they take—each stack slows their attack speed by 9%, up to 36% at full stacks. This weakens enemy marksmen and fighters, making it harder for them to deal sustained damage in fights.
Psychic Projector
Converts bonus Health into Ability Power +300 Max Health +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +15 Ability Haste
Conversion: Gain Ability Power equal to 4% of bonus Health. Up to 60 Ability Power can be gained this way.
Projection: When taking champion damage, gain a non-tacking shield that absorbs damage equal to 30 + 10% AP+ 5% bonus HPfor 3 seconds (for ranged champions, the shield absorbs damage equal 60% of this value).
Triggered every 3 seconds. 3100
Psychic Projector TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to increase the damage of their abilities based on health while also gaining useful defensive characteristics to enhance survivability. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Conversion" effect grants ability power equal to 4% of bonus health, allowing you to deal more damage than with standard builds. The "Projection" effect generates a shield that absorbs damage based on your health and ability power, and it activates every time you take damage from an enemy champion. This item is especially useful for melee champions who can make effective use of the increased survivability and enhanced damage.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability +60 Armor +60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor by 30% and Magic Resistance by 30% until out of combat with champion. 3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Amaranth's Twinguard — This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.Summoner Spells
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and Ignite (Ignites target enemy champion, dealing true damageand applying Grievous Wounds for the duration. Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380 ) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Runes BUILD
Grasp of Undying (When in combat, your next attack on a champion will occasionally deal bonus magic damage, heal you, and permanently increase your health.) as your keystone, followed by Courage of the Colossus (Gains a shield after immobilizing an enemy champions.), Second Wind (Heals you after taking damage.) and Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the primary tree, as well as 
Manaflow Band (Increases max Mana when an ability hits an enemy champions.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Grasp of Undying
Tank, Heal
Every 3s in combat, your next attack on a champion will be enhanced.
Bonus magic damage: 2%
Heal: 2.5%
Permanently health increase: 10
On Ranged champions, the effects are reduced by 60%.
Courage of the Colossus
Shield
Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45 () + 1% of max Health for 3s when immobilizing an enemy champion.
Cooldown: 10s
Second Wind
Heal after taking damage
Gain 5 Health every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 6 + (2% of your missing health) over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Manaflow Band
Mana
Hitting an enemy champion with and ability or empowered attack permanently increases your max mana by 30, up to 300 mana.
Skills Order
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
8/7/6/5s 60
Smashes his fist into the ground, unleashing a shockwave that deals 60 magic damage (60/115/170/225 + 50% ) plus 2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's max Health and slows them briefly for 0.25 seconds. Nearby enemies are also knocked back.
Deals 120 bonus damage to monsters.
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
14/13/12/11s 60
Transforms into a moving mass of roots, becoming untargetable and dashing to an enemy champion target. Upon arriver, he roots them for 0.8/0.95/1.1/1.25 seconds and deals 60 magic damage (60/95/130/165 + 50% ).
Deals 180% damage to monsters.
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
(E) SAPLING TOSS
12s 45
Flings a sapling, which stands watch at where it lands for 20 seconds. Saplings chase nearby enemies, detonating on arrival to deal 60 magic damage (60/90/120/150 + 25% + 6% bonus ) and slow nearby enemies by 30% for 2 seconds.
If placed in brush, saplings stand watch for 30 seconds and cause a larger explosion upon catching up to targets, dealing 200% magic damage and slowing enemies hit by 30% (+1.5% per 100 bonus and +1% per 100 bonus ) for 3 seconds.
Saplings deal 130% damage to minions regardless of whether they are placed in brush or not.
Saplings deal a maximum of 300 damage to monsters.
(E) SAPLING TOSS
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
75/70/65s 100
Summons a slow-moving colossal wave of brambles, dealing 175 magic damage (200/250/325 + 65% ) and rooting enemies hit for 0.8 seconds. Root duration increases with distance traveled by the brambles.
Hitting an enemy champion with this ability grants Maokai 40/50/60% Movement Speed, which decays over 2 seconds. Hitting a new target refreshes this duration.
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
Solo Baron MAOKAI Counters
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Solo Baron MAOKAI. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
Threats
Synergies
Solo Baron MAOKAI Counter Items
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Solo Baron MAOKAI in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Magic Resist
Items with magic resistance can help you to survive against MAOKAI combo.
Mercury's Treads
Reduces Magic Damage +200 Max Health +100% Health Regen +35 Magic Resistance +45 Move Speed.
Dissolve: Reduces magic damage taken by 7-12% (). 1350
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who need protection against magic damage and crowd control. They grant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance, along with increased movement speed. The “Dissolve” passive further reduces incoming magic damage, helping you survive against teams heavy in AP damage. Especially useful for tanks, fighters, and supports who often face crowd control and magic damage sources.
Spirit Visage
Increases healing and shielding received +350 Max Health +100% Health Regen +50 Magic Resistance +20 Ability Haste
Blessed: Increases all healing, regen, drain effects and shields on yourself by 30%. 2800
Spirit Visage TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, regeneration, magic resistance, and ability haste. Its “Blessed” passive amplifies all healing, regen, drain effects, and shields on you by 30%, allowing you to recover more quickly in fights. It’s an excellent choice against champions who deal sustained magic damage, like Vladimir and Swain, as well as burst mages like Syndra or Veigar, helping you survive initial bursts and heal up rapidly.
Force of Nature
Stacking Magic Resist and Move Speed +350 Max Health +55 Magic Resistance
Storm: +5% Move Speed.
Absorb: Taking ability damage from enemy champions grants 1 stack(s) of Steadfast for 7 seconds, max 4 stacks. Receiving damage from an enemy Champion will refresh the duration of the stacks. At maximum stacks, gain 10% Movement Speed and reduce all incoming magic damage by 25%. 2750
Force of Nature TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and magic resistance, and its “Absorb” passive stacks up when you take ability damage from enemy champions, reducing all incoming magic damage and granting bonus movement speed at max stacks. It’s perfect for tanks who need to withstand teams heavy in magic damage and maintain mobility to be in the right position during fights. Pick this up when the enemy team builds magic damage (e.g., Syndra, Brand) and you need extra movement speed to initiate effectively or escape dangerous situations.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield +55 Attack Damage +45 Magic Resistance +10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage. The shield decays by 5% per second. 3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Wit's End
Basic Attack deals Bonus Damage +45% Attack Speed +45 Magic Resistance
At Wit's End: Basic attacks deal 15-65 bonus magic damage. While below 50% Health, dealing damage to an enemy champion heals you for (Melee 100%/Range 33%) of this effect's post-mitigation damage. 2700
Wit's End TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who want to deal sustained damage and have some defensive stats against magic damage threats. It provides bonuses to attack speed and magic resistance, as well as adding magic damage to your auto-attacks, making it effective against magic-based threats. The "While below 50% Health" effect heals you when dealing damage to an enemy champion, increasing survivability in fights. This item is especially useful for champions like Vayne, Irelia, or Master Yi, who can benefit from its on-hit magic damage and health restoration effect.
Reduced Healing
Items with Grievous Wounds that can reduce MAOKAI Healing effects.
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380 ) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Executioner's Calling
Physical Damage reduces enemy healing +15 Attack Damage
Rend: Physical Damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds. Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Oblivion Orb
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +30 Ability Power
Cursed: Magic damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing +30 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Last Whisper: +33% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is a must-have against champions who rely heavily on healing or regeneration, such as Soraka, Yuumi, Dr. Mundo, or Vladimir. It provides bonuses to attack damage, critical strike chance, and armor penetration, making it effective against tanks and champions with high healing. The Sepsis effect applies Grievous Wounds to enemy champions, reducing the effectiveness of their healing and regeneration, giving you a significant advantage in fights against those champions.
Chempunk Chainsword
Reduces enemy healing +250 Max Health +45 Attack Damage +15 Ability Haste
Punishment: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2800
Chempunk Chainsword TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +150 Max Health +70 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +20 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2500
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
% Health Damage
Items that can help to deal with high Health points tanks.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks +425 Max Health +25 Attack Damage +25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage on-hit, with a minimum damage equal to 125% base AD and a maximum damage against monsters equal to 225% base AD.
If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health and a minimum heal equal to (90% melee / 50% ranged) base AD (1.5 second cooldown, begins after using the empowered attack).
Limitations: Limited to 1 sheen item. 3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who actively use their abilities and auto-attacks to deal damage, such as fighters. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and ability haste, helping to improve survivability and increase damage. The "Spellblade" effect allows you to deal bonus physical damage based on the target’s maximum health after using an ability, and also heal when attacking enemy champions. This item helps you deal damage and sustain in fights, making it especially useful for extended engagements.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage +250 Max Health +75 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration
Torment: Damaging abilities or empowered attacks deal 20 + 0.5%+ 0.4% of enemy's max Health as bonus magic damage over 3 seconds. 3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who are up against tanks or champions with large health pools. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, and magic penetration, enhancing your abilities and allowing you to deal damage to enemies with high health. The "Torment" effect deals bonus magic damage based on the enemy’s maximum health, making it an excellent choice against tanks and high-health champions. This item is especially useful when the enemy team consists of multiple tank champions, as it allows you to effectively deal damage even to high-survivability heroes.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage +25 Attack Damage +35% Attack Speed
Thirst:+10% Physical Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 6% of the enemy's current Health on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 9%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown) 3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a great source of sustain with its lifesteal, but it is mostly picked for its ability to cut through tanks or champions who heavily stack health, like Dr. Mundo. "Ruined Strikes" deals bonus physical damage based on the enemy's current health, which helps break through high health pools. The "Drain" effect reduces the enemy's movement speed, deals bonus magic damage, and steals part of their speed, making it useful for maneuvering in fights and reducing the mobility of enemies.
Cleanse or Block Spells
Items with ability or property to cleanse or block negative spells.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Quicksilver Enchant
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.75 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): After the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects. 800
Quicksilver Enchant TIPS: This enchant cleanses all crowd control effects, grants brief CC immunity, then boosts your tenacity and slow resist. Perfect for champions who need to quickly purge control to stay in the fight.
Edge of Night
Blocks an enemy ability +250 Max Health +50 Attack Damage
Gouge: +8 Armor Penetration.
Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability. This spell shield refreshes upon leaving combat with enemy champions. (35 second cooldown) 3150
Edge of Night TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a mix of offense and defense. It provides bonuses to maximum health and attack damage, along with increased armor penetration to help you shred through enemy defenses. The "Annul" effect grants you a spell shield, blocking the next enemy ability. This spell shield refreshes when leaving combat with enemy champions, making the item a great choice for champions who need protection from crowd control and to engage in fights, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Crown of the Shattered Queen
Blocks an enemy ability +60 Ability Power +7% Magic Penetration +200 Max Mana +20 Ability Haste
Safeguard: Grant a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, reduce incoming damage by 40% for 1s (40s Cooldown).
Poise: AP increases by 20 while Safeguarded. Dealing magic damage to enemy champions using an active ability reduces Safeguard's cooldown by 4s. 3000
Crown of the Shattered Queen TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need both defense and offense. It provides bonuses to ability power, magic penetration, maximum mana, and ability haste. The "Safeguard" effect grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability and reduces incoming damage by 40% for 1 second. "Poise" increases your ability power while safeguarded and reduces the cooldown of Safeguard by 4 seconds when you deal magic damage using an active ability. This item is especially useful for champions who need to protect themselves from crowd control while engaging in fights, particularly against champions with key abilities that can be blocked, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Solo Baron MAOKAI Tips
Solo Baron MAOKAI Strengths and Weaknesses
Solo Baron MAOKAI Strategy and Tactics
Wild Rift MAOKAI Ability and Tips
SAP MAGIC
BRAMBLE SMASH
TWISTED ADVANCE
SAPLING TOSS
NATURE'S GRASP
(Q) BRAMBLE SMASH
8/7/6/5s 60
Smashes his fist into the ground, unleashing a shockwave that deals 60 magic damage (60/115/170/225 + 50% ) plus 2.5/3/3.5/4% of the target's max Health and slows them briefly for 0.25 seconds. Nearby enemies are also knocked back.
Deals 120 bonus damage to monsters.
Ability Tips
Video
(W) TWISTED ADVANCE
14/13/12/11s 60
Transforms into a moving mass of roots, becoming untargetable and dashing to an enemy champion target. Upon arriver, he roots them for 0.8/0.95/1.1/1.25 seconds and deals 60 magic damage (60/95/130/165 + 50% ).
Deals 180% damage to monsters.
Ability Tips
Video
(E) SAPLING TOSS
12s 45
Flings a sapling, which stands watch at where it lands for 20 seconds. Saplings chase nearby enemies, detonating on arrival to deal 60 magic damage (60/90/120/150 + 25% + 6% bonus ) and slow nearby enemies by 30% for 2 seconds.
If placed in brush, saplings stand watch for 30 seconds and cause a larger explosion upon catching up to targets, dealing 200% magic damage and slowing enemies hit by 30% (+1.5% per 100 bonus and +1% per 100 bonus ) for 3 seconds.
Saplings deal 130% damage to minions regardless of whether they are placed in brush or not.
Saplings deal a maximum of 300 damage to monsters.
Ability Tips
Video
(R) NATURE'S GRASP
75/70/65s 100
Summons a slow-moving colossal wave of brambles, dealing 175 magic damage (200/250/325 + 65% ) and rooting enemies hit for 0.8 seconds. Root duration increases with distance traveled by the brambles.
Hitting an enemy champion with this ability grants Maokai 40/50/60% Movement Speed, which decays over 2 seconds. Hitting a new target refreshes this duration.
Ability Tips
Video
Wild Rift MAOKAI Skills Combo
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Wild Rift MAOKAI Video
Watch here!Maokai is a rageful, towering treant who fights the unnatural horrors of the Shadow Isles. He was twisted into a force of vengeance after a magical cataclysm destroyed his home, surviving undeath only through the Waters of Life infused within his heartwood. Once a peaceful nature spirit, Maokai now furiously battles to banish the scourge of unlife from the Shadow Isles and restore his home to its former beauty.