Simple tip to fight new ap maokai support.

MyTeamIsAwsome··4 votes·2,067 views

I've been playing maokai as a support before the rework and i picked him up again. Hope these tips can help to punish the full ap maokai support.

  1. Avoid bushes while in lane and always fight around the middle of the lane.

  2. Maokai is super squishie and run, make sure you take every opportunity to all in the adc or him before he poke you down.

3.Build some lifesteal in the early game if your the adc. Maokai is pretty useless if he can't poke you to death.

  1. Don't go full lesbian mode and facecheck every bush. Building mobility boots on support help you run in and out without getting hit by the sappling.

  2. When you reach mid game, avoid fighting in the jungle. Going the good old aram 5 v 5 mid is the best thing you can do if you have good range and waveclear.

  3. Build 1 mr item. Please don't be that one guy that build full glass cannon when you have multiple item that gives you mr and damage.

Counterpick:soraka/karma/janna/sona/nami can negate the poke and can punish maokai.

Leona/alistar/rakan and any other champion who can all in and cc maokai are great to take down maokai super quickly since he is squishy.

ps:My main language is french. No flamerino pleaserino.

7 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo3 votes

hmm my maokai support i start with 773 hp 51 armor and 41 mr

IM NOT SQUISHY

MyTeamIsAwsome1 votes

must be running one of those juicy rune page :D

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

its a page i run for malphite, leona, taric, alistar, braum , naut

its 9 armor reds, 9 scaling hp yellows 3 armor quints 6 flat mr blues, 3 scaling mr blues

so it comes out to +21 armor +216 hp at lvl 18 +8 mr +9 mr at lvl 18

and typically run 0-12-18 masteries with it

MyTeamIsAwsome1 votes

I run a greedy rune page with gold gen quint and mana regen blue for meximum poke and scaling. I have dominated alot of game as maokai recently in normal. I normally spam sappling at enemy for the first minute and get 2 peaple to half health before getting to lane.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

i use to run gold per 10 quints but they just arent worth any more... with the bandit mastery and the gold income items you get plenty of gold . cuz 3 gold per 10 quints comes out to +3 per 10 seconds which is 18 gold a min over a 35 min game it comes out to 630 gold. but with the armor quints that i run its +13 armor which is on pace with item 1029 which cost 300 gold so lets say 300g/15armor 20g =1 armor so with 13armor x 20g =260 gold stats. starting off

now armor helps your hp by reducing damage you take so it makes your hp even more effective. not only that im starting out +260 at lvl 1... just from those 3 quints

now you have to to wait 14 mins and some change to get the same amount of gold to get those stats with the gold per 10 quints. plus you have to invest into more armor earlier then i do and i can invest into bigger items faster by not needing to buy the armor items as early. so i can afford to rush into sightstone and boots and not worry about getting armor early. and when i do get more hp and more armor its just more effective and efficient through out the game . gold per 10 runes are a thing of the past

MyTeamIsAwsome1 votes

I know they are bad but i run it so i build up an advantage over the other support. I get otheritem faster and can snowball from it. I usually use them on soraka because my playstyle is usually stand behind the adc and spam heal .

ShinkoMinori1 votes

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