How to win the jungle race as Maokai against Amumu · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Maokai's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Amumu.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Maokai Favoured | Sapling Toss bush-bombs poke contests for free, but Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers. You still win the straight exchange at the first buff; keep it short, keep it decisive, and keep the scuttle line yours. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Maokai Favoured | Twisted Advance root trades keep skirmishes on your schedule. Amumu can make it awkward — a Bandage Toss stun into Tantrum spam wears you down inside his Despair aura — but not with one camp still up on both sides. Trade, then walk away with the second buff and the tempo that comes with it. |
| Level 3 Route | Maokai Favoured | Bramble Smash knock-back plus the W root is a solid pick kit, not a stat-check. The margin is thin: Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Sidestep the bandage line — without the stun connecting he has no kill threat. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Even — Farm & Track | Even through 4-5. Levels 4-5 are pure gank-hunting for him — a Bandage Toss into any lane with follow-up beats a full clear, so mirror it: farm the same tempo, ward the same crossings, and take the fight only with numbers. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Amumu's R | The AoE Curse locks entire contests, which is the whole problem: a Bandage Toss into the AoE Curse locks you down for the full follow-up. The engage is two dodgeable skill-shots — respect the angle, not the mummy, and spend Nature's Grasp to equalize rather than to open. |
| First Item Spike | Sunfire Aegis Spike | Completing Sunfire Aegis gives you a constant area burn plus health, so camps melt while you stand in them and every extended fight with a brawler has free damage ticking on your side. Amumu's first completed item makes Despair and Tantrum clear at real speed and turns his engage into a genuine team-fight threat. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Respect Amumu Late — End Early | The full-build comparison goes to Amumu: he is a Curse-and-run engager whose value is the ultimate, not the duel. Play for picks and objectives, and end before the fight has to be fair. |
Start your clear at the Raptors or Wolves camp utilizing your stacked E saplings to maximize early AoE clear speed without a leash. Amumu opens on a buff and clears steadily off Despair and Tantrum, so he is rarely far from his own camps before three.
Ranked by the race windows in Maokai's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Maokai vs Amumu report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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No clear favourite — Maokai holds 4 windows, Amumu 2, the rest are even.
Yes — Maokai vs Amumu plays as a skill matchup: the jungle race swings window to window, and the better first clear usually sets the tone.
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