How to win the jungle race as Maokai against Evelynn · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Maokai's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Evelynn.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Maokai Favoured | Sapling Toss bush-bombs poke contests for free, but pre-stealth Evelynn is the weakest level-1 champion in the jungle. 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. Evelynn can make it awkward — her early duel is a bluff, but Allure charm setups punish brush face-checks — 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: pre-stealth Evelynn is the weakest level-1 champion in the jungle, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Invade her relentlessly before six — she cannot contest and loses every straight fight. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Even — Farm & Track | Even through 4-5. She is still farming for six and cannot contest anything she does not out-number, so mirror it: farm the same tempo, ward the same crossings, and take the fight only with numbers. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Evelynn's R | Demon Shade camouflage means they choose every post-6 fight, which is the whole problem: from six on she is invisible — every face-check is a charm into Last Caress. Buy sweepers, hug control wards, and never path alone through her quadrant, 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. Evelynn's first item plus camouflage is the spike that flips the matchup — the charm rotation starts killing outright. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Evelynn Outscales | You lose the long game outright: she is invisible and lethal, and every unswept corridor is a charm into a delete, and no build path of yours answers that. Convert every early lead into an objective immediately. |
Start your clear at the Raptors or Wolves camp utilizing your stacked E saplings to maximize early AoE clear speed without a leash. Evelynn clears slowly and unhealthily before six, so her early pathing is usually the safest, longest route she can take.
Ranked by the race windows in Maokai's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Maokai vs Evelynn 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, Evelynn 2, the rest are even.
Yes — Maokai vs Evelynn 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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