How to win the jungle race as Maokai against Udyr · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Maokai's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Udyr.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Danger — Avoid Udyr | Hard no-contest for Maokai at level 1: Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight, and Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage. Path opposite, ward your entrances, and let the clock carry you to your own spike. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Danger — Avoid Udyr | Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight on top of that, so level 2 is a straight stat check Maokai loses — pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage, and give the river vision-line respect. |
| Level 3 Route | Danger — Avoid Udyr | Udyr out-classes you at the opening scuttle — four stance points are online and their awakened trades hit their hardest window, and Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Give up the level-3 river fight, full-clear away from them, and trade map pressure instead of health. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Danger — Avoid Udyr | This is a no-contest window: he farms 4-5 at speed and takes any fight near a wall, since Blazing Stampede needs only a straight line, and you have nothing that answers it. Full-clear the far side and let the objective timers carry you. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Udyr's R | Awakened Blazing Stampede chains stuns faster than your cooldowns recover — Maokai loses the straight post-6 duel. Break the chase with walls — his power is point-blank and he cannot force the fight, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Stance Mastery is not on. |
| 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. Udyr's first item is where the awakened stance rotations stop being a heavy trade and start being a kill. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Respect Udyr Late — End Early | The full-build comparison goes to Udyr: he is an awakened-stance brawler with sustain, damage and a stun on a short timer. 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. Udyr clears extremely fast with stance swaps and shields himself through it, so he is rarely below full health.
Ranked by the race windows in Maokai's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Maokai vs Udyr 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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Udyr pressures 6 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Udyr pressures 6 of the 7 windows, so Maokai is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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