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Maokai A Tier ARAM Mayhem Build

Maokai · the Twisted Treant

TankSupport 50.66% WR 6.77% PR Patch: 26.10

Damage Dealt -15% Damage Received +5%

Maokai is A tier in ARAM: Mayhem patch 26.10 with a 50.66% win rate. This guide covers their ARAM build, augment picks, and Mayhem-specific synergies.

Best Augments for Maokai

Dropkick 56.61%

Tank Engine 62.42%

Soul Eater 57.06%

Slap Around 62.22%

Guilty Pleasure 51.08%

Augment Combos for Maokai

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5 combos

Circle of Death S God Tier

Maokai's best augment. One auto = full health.

Courage of the Colossus S

Q grants a shield stack per hit — multi-target Q = huge shield.

Void Rift is magic damage, so it fits AP champions with high magic pen — % magic pen amplifies it, and Pridestalker's ability damage procs it many times. Forge: magic pen > AP > MS.

Protein Shake S

Protein Shake gives huge sustain — combined with Maokai's % HP regen passive, you never die.

Protein Shake S

Maokai's QWR all proc Colossus's Courage shield; Protein Shake amps shield and passive heal — just stick W on enemies and chain QWR.

Maokai ARAM Mayhem Build & Augments

Mayhem-specific augment picks, synergies, and meta data for Maokai in patch 26.10.

Skill Priority

Data date: 20260521

Q>E>W Pick Rate: 36.18% Win Rate: 51.10%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 12.24% Win Rate: 51.03%

E W Q Q Q R Q E Q E R E E W W Pick Rate: 1.40% Win Rate: 51.13%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q E R E E E W Pick Rate: 1.29% Win Rate: 51.14%

Q>W>E Pick Rate: 25.93% Win Rate: 51.27%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R W W E E Pick Rate: 8.98% Win Rate: 51.34%

Q W E Q Q R Q E Q W R W W W E Pick Rate: 1.15% Win Rate: 51.39%

Q W E Q Q R Q W Q W R E W W E Pick Rate: 0.96% Win Rate: 51.18%

E>Q>W Pick Rate: 14.90% Win Rate: 51.67%

Q W E E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 5.06% Win Rate: 51.82%

E W Q E E R E Q E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.65% Win Rate: 52.23%

Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W W Pick Rate: 0.52% Win Rate: 51.66%

Starting Items

Pick Rate: 79.13% Win Rate: 50.47%

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 54.53% Win Rate: 50.89%

Pick Rate: 44.33% Win Rate: 51.65%

Pick Rate: 41.54% Win Rate: 49.86%

Pick Rate: 31.05% Win Rate: 46.88%

Boots

Mercury's Treads

Pick Rate: 37.41% Win Rate: 50.06%

Sorcerer's Shoes

Pick Rate: 6.97% Win Rate: 52.93%

Boots of Swiftness

Pick Rate: 0.27% Win Rate: 55.77%

Plated Steelcaps

Pick Rate: 13.50% Win Rate: 49.79%

Core Builds

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 10.22% Win Rate: 50.87%

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 6.87% Win Rate: 51.54%

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 6.17% Win Rate: 53.50%

Winter's Approach

Unending Despair

Pick Rate: 3.68% Win Rate: 50.40%

Pick Rate: 3.57% Win Rate: 49.89%

Late-Game Builds

Pick Rate: 6.55% Win Rate: 53.55%

Pick Rate: 32.63% Win Rate: 52.11%

Amplifying Tome

Pick Rate: 0.69% Win Rate: 53.78%

Guardian's Horn

Pick Rate: 0.41% Win Rate: 56.27%

Refillable Potion

Pick Rate: 2.08% Win Rate: 52.66%

Best Augments for Maokai

Prismatic

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 56.61%

Your basic attacks and abilities execute enemy champions below 5% (+ 3% per 100 of your AD) (+ 0.2% per 1000 of your maximum health) of their maximum health, which causes their corpse to be sent flying away in a line. Upon collision with an enemy champion or terrain, the target's corpse explodes to deal 150 to 500 (+ 100% of your armor) (+ 100% of your magic resistance) magic damage to nearby enemies. Successful executions heal you for 100 to 300 (+ 2.5% of your maximum health).

The execution may also be triggered by the explosion.

Win rate: 55.91%

Grants 35% bonus health, 15% adaptive force, and 50% increased size.

Win rate: 55.96%

Surrounds you in flames, causing you to apply a Burn every second to enemy champions within 500 units for 5 seconds that deals magic damage equal to0.3% of your maximum health per second.This Burn stacks infinitely and refreshes with each application.

Courage of the Colossus

Win rate: 49.22%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants a shield for 3 seconds that absorbs 100 to 300 (+ 5% maximum health) damage (5 second cooldown per cast instance). Shields can stack between multiple triggers of this effect, though not refreshing the duration of previous shields.

Circle of Death

Win rate: 50.65%

Healing and health regeneration you do causes you to deal 70% of that value in magic damage to the nearest enemy champion within 1000 units.

Win rate: 51.01%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion summons a comet above them that lands at their current location after 1 second, dealing 50 to 150 (+ 40% AP) (+ 4% of your maximum health) magic damage to enemies within the area (6 second cooldown per target per cast instance).

Gold

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 62.42%

Scoring a champion takedown generates a stack, stacking infinitely. For each stack, increase your maximum health and size by 5%. Lose 65% of stacks on death.

Win rate: 57.06%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants you 20 bonus health, stacking infinitely (5 second cooldown per cast instance).

Quest: Steel Your Heart

Win rate: 58.34%

Quest: Obtain Heartsteel and accumulate over 300 bonus health from Colossal Consumption.

Reward: Upon completing your Quest, increase the bonus health gained from Heartsteel Colossal Consumption by 200%.

Win rate: 55.47%

Gain 1250 bonus health, but reduce your damage output by 10%.

Transmute: Prismatic

Win rate: 66.81%

Gain one random Prismatic augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment.

Win rate: 52.39%

Grants 800% base health regeneration, increased to 1600% while below 25% maximum health.

Silver

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 62.22%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants you 10 adaptive force, stacking infinitely (5 second cooldown per cast instance). Lose 50% of stacks on death.

Guilty Pleasure

Win rate: 51.08%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion heals you for 10 to 150 (+ 1.5% maximum health) (5 second cooldown per cast instance).

Win rate: 56.46%

Basic attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 3.5% of your maximum health.

Upgrade Immolate

Win rate: 52.89%

Upgrades Bami's Cinder, Hollow Radiance, and Sunfire Aegis, empowering Immolate to additionally grant you 10 gold per tick for each enemy champion afflicted by its effect. Additionally, gain 250 gold.

Clones do not count as valid targets for the effect.

Win rate: 56.84%

Grants bonus health equal to 50% maximum mana.

Win rate: 48.07%

Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants 2 to 10 bonus armor and bonus magic resistance for 10 seconds, stacking up to 10 times for a total of 20 to 100 bonus resistances, and refreshing on subsequent triggers.

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Recent Stats Changes

Recent Snapshots

20260522_092759 • Patch: 26.10 • A 🛠 Build changed: Late

Rank: 49 Win: 50.66% Pick: 6.77%

Rank Δ: 0 Win Rate Δ: 0.00% Pick Rate Δ: +0.05%

20260517_090029 • Patch: 26.10 • A 🛠 Build changed: Late

Rank: 49 Win: 50.66% Pick: 6.72%

Rank Δ: 0 Win Rate Δ: -0.03% Pick Rate Δ: +0.09%

20260512_082733 • Patch: 26.9 • A 🛠 Build changed: Boots ✨ Augment changed: Silver

Rank: 49 Win: 50.69% Pick: 6.63%

Rank Δ: ↓ -3 Win Rate Δ: -0.11% Pick Rate Δ: +0.23%

Silver +Upgrade Thornmail -Frost Wraith

20260504_213411 • Patch: 26.8 • A ✨ Augment changed: Prismatic, Silver

Rank: 46 Win: 50.80% Pick: 6.40%

Prismatic +Transmute: Chaos -Infinite Recursion

Silver +Weighted Popoffs -Self Destruct

20260424_160922 • Patch: 26.8 • A

Rank: 48 Win: 50.46% Pick: 7.12%

20260413_215021 • Patch: 26.7 • B

Rank: 58 Win: 50.29% Pick: 6.93%

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Quest: Steel Your Heart

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