# Maokai Build, Runes and Counters · 26.22

> Best build for Maokai: rune page, item set, summoner spells, skill order and counter picks — 26.22 patch, ranked match data.

Source: https://gamerone.org/en/champion/maokai · Patch: 26.22 · Support

## Maokai — the Twisted Treant

- Tier: A (#41 of 102 in Support)
- Win rate: 50.4%
- Pick: 1.6%
- Ban: 0.2%
- Games: 6,417

## Runes

- **Resolve**: Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching
- **Inspiration**: Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight
- Adaptive Force, Health scaling with level, Health scaling with level

## Summoner spells

Flash, Ignite

## Items

- Starting items: Health Potion, Health Potion
- **Tank** (Win rate: 54.7% · Games: 2,264): Locket of the Iron Solari → Bandlepipes → Knight's Vow → (Thornmail / Spirit Visage) → (Unending Despair / Knight's Vow / Jak'Sho, The Protean)
- Boots: Boots of Swiftness

## Skill order

Q > W > E

## Struggles against

- Zac: -8.3 pp win rate difference (12 games)
- Vel'Koz: -5.6 pp win rate difference (81 games)
- LeBlanc: -5.6 pp win rate difference (36 games)
- Braum: -5.2 pp win rate difference (194 games)
- Alistar: -5.1 pp win rate difference (274 games)

## Strong against

- Jarvan IV: +26.5 pp win rate difference (17 games)
- Teemo: +16.7 pp win rate difference (12 games)
- Sona: +10.3 pp win rate difference (73 games)
- Anivia: +10.0 pp win rate difference (20 games)
- Skarner: +10.0 pp win rate difference (10 games)

The data is calculated per patch from ranked matches in the selected tier and region.

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