How to win the jungle race as Maokai against Warwick · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Maokai's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Warwick.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Danger — Avoid Warwick | Warwick out-classes you at the first buff — Eternal Hunger sustain means they win any fight where both sides arrive off full camps, and Q sustain and Blood Hunt frenzy out-heal your damage the moment you drop below half. Skip the level-1 crossing, full-clear away from them, and trade map pressure instead of health. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Danger — Avoid Warwick | Do not be seen on the second camp: Q sustain and Blood Hunt frenzy out-heal your damage the moment you drop below half. On top of that, Blood Hunt (W) attack speed plus Q healing out-sustains every trade pattern, so they get there first. Never fight him while low — his W tracks your blood trail; disengage above 50%. Refuse the level-2 skirmish and farm the opposite quadrant until your spike lands. |
| Level 3 Route | Danger — Avoid Warwick | Hard no-contest for Maokai at level 3: Eternal Hunger sustain means they win any fight where both sides arrive off full camps, and Q sustain and Blood Hunt frenzy out-heal your damage the moment you drop below half. Never fight him while low — his W tracks your blood trail; disengage above 50%. Path opposite, ward your entrances, and let the clock carry you to your own spike. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Danger — Avoid Warwick | This is a no-contest window: he tracks blood trails through 4-5, so any laner below half is a gank he reaches faster than you expect, and you have nothing that answers it. Full-clear the far side and let the objective timers carry you. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Warwick's R | Warwick wins the breakpoint outright — Infinite Duress suppression plus Blood Hunt frenzy ends any duel that starts below full, and Infinite Duress suppresses you through the fight while his sustain out-lasts your burst. Hold a dash or hard CC for the R leap — it is interruptible mid-flight, then trade objectives cross-map until your items land. |
| 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. Warwick's first item is where the healing stops being sustain and starts being more than your damage can out-pace. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Maokai Favoured at Full Build | You are the better full-build side, narrowly. He suppresses a carry for the length of the fight and out-heals your answer, so take the duel with cooldowns up and never mid-rotation. |
Start your clear at the Raptors or Wolves camp utilizing your stacked E saplings to maximize early AoE clear speed without a leash. Warwick clears fast and heals through everything off Eternal Hunger, so he is at full health at every crossing.
Ranked by the race windows in Maokai's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Maokai vs Warwick 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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Warwick pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Warwick pressures 5 of the 7 windows, so Maokai is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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