How to win lane as Maokai against Renata Glasc · 50.82% win rate (484 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Their sustain answers chip — your W answers their carry directly; root the windows.
Track: Renata Glasc's R — Hostile Takeover (150–110s cooldown). The berserk wave turns your team on itself — never group in a line against it.
Read from Maokai's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Renata Glasc.
This is Maokai's own plan; across 484 pooled games the lane is leaning Maokai.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Maokai | You win level 1 — Renata has no engage and folds to your early pressure. |
| Level 2 | Maokai | Level 2 is yours — Q-Sapling all-in punishes a support with no self-engage. |
| Level 3 | Maokai | Level 3 favors you as your CC lands freely against her reactive kit. |
| Levels 4-5 | Maokai | Levels 4-5 stay yours — you control every engage window she can only react to. |
| Level 6 | Maokai | At 6 your long-range Grasp still dictates fights despite her Hostile Takeover. |
| First item | Even / skill | First item is skill-based — her Loyalty Program (E) shields start blunting your all-ins. |
| Two+ items | Renata Glasc | By two-plus items Renata's enchanter scaling and game-swinging R outvalue your frontline. |
You dominate the early game — Renata has no self-peel engage and leans entirely on her ADC, so your level-2 Q-Sapling all-in and W-Q pickoffs punish any step-up hard. Her only answer is Handshake (Q), a 16s-cooldown root/disengage; bait it or engage when it's down and you'll win every honest trade through the first few levels. She has no self-peel engage and leans entirely on her tether, so your root plus the knock-back beats her outright. Seed the ground her carry needs, and commit the moment the tether is already spent, letting your ADC follow the root rather than leading it.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Maokai's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Maokai vs Renata Glasc report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Maokai, slightly — a 50.82% win rate edge over 484 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Maokai has a small statistical edge (50.82% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Maokai has a slight edge (50.82% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Maokai takes Guardian on the Resolve tree with Font of Life, Bone Plating and Overgrowth, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Renata Glasc.
Start World Atlas + potions and back for Bramble piece vs sustain. Build Locket / Zeke's first, then Knight's Vow path, with Mercury's.
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