Maokai
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · EUW- Pick
- 6.3%picked in 406 of 6,487 games
- Ban
- 2.6%86 bans over 3,246 games, against 0.1% in soloQ
Amateur: 6,491 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, EUW. SoloQ Master+: 336,200 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.Draft
- How to play itGrasp of the Undying, then Hollow Radiance, Unending Despair, and Spirit Visage: the most played build in soloQ.



- In a compPlays teamfights first: more teamfights than 100% of top laners.FrontlineTeamfightLets allies carryCC
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.6%
- SoloQ
- 0.2%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 3.1%
- SoloQ
- 0.1%
Not enough games to judge: core.
How to play it?
Grasp of the Undying, then Hollow Radiance, Unending Despair, and Spirit Visage: the most played build in soloQ.
Hollow Radiance
Unending Despair
Spirit Visage
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Plays teamfights first: more teamfights than 100% of top laners.
- Plays teamfightstop1%63% · top laners: 53%
- Lets allies carry killstop1%rank 100 of 100
- Crowd control (CC)top2%2.2 · top laners: 0.8
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- Frontline
- Teamfight
- Lets allies carry
- CC
Like other top laners
- Damage in lane
- Damage in mid game
- Damage in late game
What it is not
- Few duels
- Little damage
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 44 in lane, 57 in mid game and 45 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 98% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 44 of 100 among top laners595 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 57 of 100 among top laners899 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 45 of 100 among top laners1,058 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 2 of 100 among top laners-867 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 2 of 100 among top laners-1,347 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 87 of 100 among top laners1,362 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 100 of 100 among top laners63% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 2 of 100 among top laners17% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 100 of 100 among top lanersrank 100 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 98 of 100 among top laners2.2 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 15 of 100 among top laners17% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+0.2%1,040 picks of 672,391ban 0.1% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.6%53 picks of 9,366ban 3.1% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.0%0 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
5.8% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Top- 1.3%G124 games of 1,918
- 0.8%G216 games of 1,918
- 1.1%G3+7 games of 632
Not enough series yet: published from 30.

