What are the best runes for Maokai?

The most recorded Maokai support rune page on patch 16.14 takes Aftershock out of Resolve, with Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching beside it and Hextech Flashtraption and Cosmic Insight out of Inspiration. Players who ran it won 51.6% of 434 games, range 46.9% to 56.3%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Maokai build, patch 16.14

Q: What skill order should I use on Maokai?

Recorded Maokai support players max Q, then W, then E. 157 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 99% of 131 Q-first games and 77% of 13 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

1,001 games of Maokai recorded on patch 16.14, across support, top, jungle and mid.

Win rate

51.5% of support games this patch

Pick rate

0.9% of support games

Games

687 support, patch 16.14

Rank in role

23 of 90 support champions

Win impact against the average support pick on patch 16.14: +0.4 wins per 100 games (range -1.5 to 2.3) 687 games Pooled

What most Maokai support players build, patch 16.14

Build Bandlepipes, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari, and run Aftershock

The rune page they run

Resolve

Aftershock

Inspiration

Shards

434 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 157 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q		Q	Q		Q		Q
W	W							W		W		W	W					W
E			E											E	E		E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 W

Max Q, then W, then E. The level by level count.

16 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent not enough games yet. 16 games so far, this needs 30.

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Maokai support is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 687 games, of which 354 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: support, top and jungle, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.4 per 100 vs the support average · 687 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (620 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-4.0, range -18.3 to +10.3)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Maokai players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Maokai, support

3 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Bandlepipes, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari
not enough games yet. 16 games so far, this needs 30. 16 games
Bandlepipes, Protoplasm Harness and Locket of the Iron Solari
not enough games yet. 15 games so far, this needs 30. 15 games
Bandlepipes, Thornmail and Locket of the Iron Solari
not enough games yet. 10 games so far, this needs 30. 10 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Maokai, top

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No top build recorded yet

We have 188 games of Maokai top on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

Maokai, jungle

1 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Imperial Mandate, Liandry's Torment and Bloodletter's Curse
not enough games yet. 10 games so far, this needs 30. 10 games

What runes do most Maokai players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Maokai, support

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

Aftershock Resolve with Inspiration

434 games

Resolve

Aftershock

Inspiration

Shards

434 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Aftershock Resolve with Precision

110 games

Aftershock Resolve with Domination

54 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Aftershock: 51.8% 618 games

7 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Maokai, top

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Sorcery

89 games

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Sorcery

Shards

89 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Inspiration

50 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Grasp of the Undying: 38.3% 162 games

5 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Maokai, jungle

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 1 of them cleared 30 games.

First Strike Inspiration with Domination

42 games

Inspiration

First Strike

Domination

Shards

42 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

First Strike: 47.9% 48 games
Aftershock: 38.1% 42 games

4 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then W, then E

157 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 99% of 131 Q-first games and 77% of 13 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

not enough games

Maokai support skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 157 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q		Q	Q		Q		Q
W	W							W		W		W	W					W
E			E											E	E		E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 W

Almost nobody maxed E first, so there is nothing to compare. +3 wins per 100 games (range -8 to 15) 140 games Measured 130 games maxed Q first, 10 games maxed E first.

Max Q, then W, then E

Only 41 recorded games on patch 16.14. A soft read.

Maokai top skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 41 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q		Q		Q		Q		Q
W		W						W		W		W	W
E				E										E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 W, 11 R, 12 W, 13 W, 14 E, 15 E, 16 R, 17 E, 18 E

Maokai, jungle

Not enough jungle level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 26 games so far, this needs 30.

Maokai jungle has 115 games recorded, but only 26 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Maokai support build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Locket of the Iron Solari: 14:41 1,116 games
Bandlepipes: 22:46 305 games
Knight's Vow: 23:21 422 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Maokai?

The opponents Maokai support loses to most and the teammates Maokai gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

Not enough games yet to rank Maokai's opponents. Maokaisupport has 721 games recorded on patch 16.14, and ranking opponents needs 1,000 before the baseline is steady; every opponent so far is counted, not ranked.

Best teammates

Not enough games yet to rank the champions Maokai wins beside.

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Maokai rank?

Every role we recorded Maokai in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Maokai by role

support B +0.4 wins per 100 games (range -1.5 to 2.3) 687 games Pooled: 50 687 games
top C -0.9 wins per 100 games (range -3.0 to 1.2) 188 games Pooled: 41 188 games
jungle C -0.4 wins per 100 games (range -2.5 to 1.8) 115 games Pooled: 43 115 games
mid not enough games yet. 11 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 11 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Maokai

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.