Champion sheet · Support

Maokai

Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · All regions

Tournament presence · pick + ban

6.9%#100 of 173 champions

Pick: 5.4%picked in 1,542 of 28,547 games
Ban: 1.5%348 bans over 23,274 games, against 0.1% in soloQ

Win rate as Support52.7% between 48.7% and 56.6% over 427 gamesSoloQ 50.2%: no clear gap

Median length29.6 minsoloQ 27.3 min

Amateur: 28,642 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR 65% · EUW 24% · NA 10%. SoloQ Master+: 897,301 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 tournaments4 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Support.DraftLengthSpells
How to play itAftershock, then Dead Man's Plate, Force of Nature, and Protoplasm Harness: the most played build in soloQ.
In a compCrowd control (CC) first: more CC than 98% of supports.FrontlineTeamfightCC
With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
In draftFallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.

01 — What changes in tournaments

What changes in tournaments?

4 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Support.

DraftPicked less often in amateur play
Amateur
0.7%
SoloQ
0.9%
0.7% of the role's picks in amateur play, against 0.9% in soloQ.
DraftBanned more often in amateur play
Amateur
1.5%
SoloQ
0.1%
1.5% ban rate in amateur play over 14,779 games, against 0.1% in soloQ over 364,710 games.
LengthLonger games in amateur play
Amateur
29.6 min
SoloQ
27.3 min
Median of 29.6 min in amateur play, against 27.3 min in soloQ.
SpellsFlash + Heal instead of Flash + Ignite
Amateur
63%
SoloQ
54%
Played in 63% of amateur games; soloQ sticks to Flash + Ignite (54%).

Not enough games to judge: core.

02 — How to play it

How to play it?

Aftershock, then Dead Man's Plate, Force of Nature, and Protoplasm Harness: the most played build in soloQ.

SoloQ build, amateur differences under each block

RunesAftershock91% · 15,420

Same in amateur play

SpellsFlash + Ignite54% · 9,203

≠ Amateur: Flash + Heal instead of Flash + Ignite. 63% · 468 games

SkillsQnot collected in soloQ

Amateur: 85% · 45 games

Core (3 legendaries)5% · 4

5%of soloQ games

Dead Man's Plate
Force of Nature
Protoplasm Harness

Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.

03 — In a comp

What does it bring to a comp?

Crowd control (CC) first: more CC than 98% of supports.

Crowd control (CC)top2%1.9 · supports: 1
Plays teamfightstop5%59% · supports: 54%
Absorbs damagetop15%829 · supports: 393

Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other supports

What marks it

Frontline
Teamfight
CC

Like other supports

Damage in lane
Damage in mid game
Damage in late game
Map pressure
Lets allies carry kills
Team damage

What it is not

Few duels
No poke

Damage / min by phase · at equal gold

Rank 54 in lane, 61 in mid game and 66 in late game, out of 100 supports.

288+1 vs 288

395+53 vs 342

487+99 vs 388

Lane · 5–14 minMid game · 15–22Late · 23–30

Maokaisupports

Gold vs. direct opponent

At 20 min, behind 83% of supports against the direct opponent.

supports

4.3takedowns outside its lane before 15 min; supports: 4.5.

Where it stands among supports · every measure

0 ← less · median · more → 100

Damage in lane · rank 54 of 100 among supports288 · median 288
Damage in mid game · rank 61 of 100 among supports395 · median 342
Damage in late game · rank 66 of 100 among supports487 · median 388
Gold at 15 min · rank 22 of 100 among supports-80 · median +105
Gold at 20 min · rank 17 of 100 among supports-138 · median +193
Map pressure · rank 66 of 100 among supports4.3 · median 4.5
Absorbs damage · rank 85 of 100 among supports829 · median 393
Plays teamfights · rank 95 of 100 among supports59% · median 54%
Takes its kills in duels · rank 15 of 100 among supports13% · median 17%
Lets allies carry kills · rank 62 of 100 among supportsrank 62 of 100
Crowd control (CC) · rank 98 of 100 among supports1.9 · median 1
Team damage · rank 53 of 100 among supports10% · median 9%

04 — With / against

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

Topgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

Junglegap to expected

Wukong53.7% · expected 50.4% · 41 g+3.3 ptSoloQ -1.1

Midgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

ADCgap to expected

Kai'Sa64.9% · expected 53.2% · 37 g+11.6 ptSoloQ +0.6

Jhin63.9% · expected 55.0% · 36 g+8.8 ptSoloQ +2.5

Xayah56.7% · expected 51.3% · 30 g+5.4 ptSoloQ -1.4

Supportgap to expected

Nautilus65.0% · expected 52.5% · 40 g+12.5 ptSoloQ +3.2

Leona62.2% · expected 53.8% · 37 g+8.4 ptSoloQ -0.6

With

Topgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

Junglegap to expected

Wukong64.5% · expected 55.0% · 31 g+9.5 ptSoloQ +1.3

Lee Sin54.3% · expected 52.4% · 35 g+1.9 ptSoloQ +1.7

Midgap to expected

No positive gap in amateur play.

ADCgap to expected

Tristana60.6% · expected 52.7% · 33 g+7.9 ptSoloQ +1.1

Jhin51.1% · expected 50.3% · 47 g+0.7 ptSoloQ -1.4

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.

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