How to win lane as Maokai against Seraphine · 49.9% win rate over 1,998 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Maokai | You win level 1 — an immobile enchanter folds to your engage pressure. |
| Level 2 | Maokai | Level 2 is yours — Q-Sapling all-in punishes a squishy with no escape. |
| Level 3 | Maokai | Level 3 favors you as your W gap-close pins her down through minions. |
| Levels 4-5 | Maokai | Levels 4-5 stay yours — she can't kite your engage without mobility. |
| Level 6 | Maokai | At 6 your Grasp still starts fights while she has no escape from your W. |
| First item | Even / skill | First item is even — her shields and sustain start blunting your all-ins. |
| Two+ items | Seraphine | By two-plus items Seraphine's double-casts, shields and Encore outscale your frontline. |
You dominate the early lane — Seraphine is an immobile squishy enchanter, so your level-2 Q-Sapling all-in and W-Q gap-close punish any step-up hard. Her only tools to survive are E's slow and careful spacing behind the minion wave, so engage through minions when her E is down and you'll chunk or kill her before her poke matters.
The full Maokai vs Seraphine 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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