Maokai·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Maokai Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Hollow Radiance as your first item, followed by Mercury's Treads and Frozen Heart. For your last 3 items, you should build Thornmail, Jak'Sho, The Protean and finish with Iceborn Gauntlet. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 54.7% winrate over 258 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Biscuit Delivery with Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Frozen Heart as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Hollow Radiance as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Anathema's Chains and Morellonomicon. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 51.4% win rate across 148 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Maokai Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Legend: Tenacity with Triumph as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Thornmail as third item. The last 3 options are Frozen Heart, Unending Despair and Spirit Visage. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.9% win rate over 85 matches played.

Situational Maokai Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Maokai build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.