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Maokai A Tier ARAM Mayhem Build

Maokai · the Twisted Treant

TankSupport49.69% WR8.45% PRPatch: 26.16

Damage Dealt-15%Damage Received+5%

Maokai is A tier in ARAM: Mayhem patch 26.16 with a 49.69% win rate. This guide covers their ARAM build, augment picks, and Mayhem-specific synergies.

Best Augments for Maokai

Tank Engine65.49%

Quest: Steel Your Heart63.57%

Heavy Hitter62.51%

Upgrade Immolate57.09%

Augment Combos for Maokai

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5 combos

Circle of DeathSGod Tier

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

Courage of the ColossusS

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

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 26.16.

Skill Priority

Data date: 20260820

Q>E>WPick Rate: 36.18%Win Rate: 51.10%

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

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

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

Q>W>EPick Rate: 25.93%Win Rate: 51.27%

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

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

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

E>Q>WPick Rate: 14.90%Win Rate: 51.67%

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

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

Q W E Q E R E E E Q R Q Q W WPick 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

Berserker's Greaves

Pick Rate: 1.02%Win Rate: 53.35%

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Pick Rate: 8.75%Win Rate: 49.62%

Mercury's Treads

Pick Rate: 26.12%Win Rate: 48.48%

Plated Steelcaps

Pick Rate: 9.21%Win Rate: 48.71%

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: 12.83%Win Rate: 51.11%

Pick Rate: 1.77%Win Rate: 52.79%

Refillable Potion

Pick Rate: 4.63%Win Rate: 50.78%

Pick Rate: 29.17%Win Rate: 50.10%

Amplifying Tome

Pick Rate: 0.81%Win Rate: 52.70%

Best Augments for Maokai

Prismatic

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 59.46%

Your Attacks and Abilities execute enemy champions below @Calc_Execute_Threshold@ max Health, restoring @Calc_Heal@ Health and Knocking Back the target.

Upon colliding with an enemy or terrain or reaching their terminus, Knocked Back enemies will explode dealing @Calc_Damage@ magic damage to nearby enemies.

These explosions can chain.

Enemies Dropkicked: @f3.0@
Total Health Gained: @f2.0@
Damage Dealt: @f1.0@

Win rate: 60.46%

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

Courage of the Colossus

Win rate: 49.89%

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.

Win rate: 61.23%

Gain ability haste equal to 30% AP.

Win rate: 53.69%

Casting a spell refunds another random spell's cost by the required number of% of the original spell's Cooldown.

Infinite Recursion

Win rate: 62.22%

Gain 60 ability haste, increased by 3 each time you score a champion takedown.

Gold

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 65.49%

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.

Quest: Steel Your Heart

Win rate: 63.57%

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: 56.47%

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

Ethereal Weapon

Win rate: 60.67%

Your abilities apply on-hit effects (1 second cooldown per target).

Win rate: 58.41%

Dealing damage to an enemy champion with an ability within 1000 units fires 3 missiles at them that each deal true damage equal to 0.33...% of the target's maximum health, increased to up to 1% based on distance travelled. This effect can only trigger once every 6 seconds from the same cast.

Win rate: 51.09%

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

Silver

Tier + appearance rate

Win rate: 62.51%

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

Upgrade Immolate

Win rate: 57.09%

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: 53.41%

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.

Purist - Caster

Win rate: 55.83%

Convert all of your bonus attack speed into ability haste at a rate of 0.65 ability haste per 1% bonus attack speed. Additionally, your abilities' total cooldowns are reduced by 10%.

Witchful Thinking

Win rate: 55.15%

Grants 20 to 80 ability power.

Forged By The Master

Win rate: 54.56%

Increase your Item and Augment damage by the required number of.

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Recent Stats Changes

Recent Snapshots

20260821_013430•Patch: 26.16•A✨ Augment changed: Prismatic

Rank: 40Win: 49.69%Pick: 8.45%

Rank Δ: ↓ -3Win Rate Δ: +0.21%Pick Rate Δ: -0.73%

Prismatic +Ultimate Awakening -Fey Magic

20260813_155723•Patch: 26.16•A🛠 Build changed: Boots, Late

Rank: 37Win: 49.48%Pick: 9.18%

Rank Δ: 0Win Rate Δ: -0.09%Pick Rate Δ: +0.19%

20260731_221718•Patch: 26.15•A✨ Augment changed: Prismatic

Rank: 37Win: 49.57%Pick: 8.99%

Rank Δ: ↓ -2Win Rate Δ: -0.63%Pick Rate Δ: +0.76%

Prismatic +Spellsplit -Ultimate Revolution

20260726_185822•Patch: 26.14•A🛠 Build changed: Boots

Rank: 35Win: 50.20%Pick: 8.23%

20260718_081020•Patch: 26.14•A✨ Augment changed: Prismatic, Gold

Rank: 38Win: 50.19%Pick: 8.14%

Prismatic +Fey Magic -Chain Reaction

Gold +Transmute: Prismatic -Ravenous Bind

20260710_214816•Patch: 26.13•A

Rank: 37Win: 50.32%Pick: 8.84%

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Courage of the Colossus

Quest: Steel Your Heart

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