How to win lane as Soraka against Maokai · 50.77% win rate (1,808 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
His engage hunts the banana — heal from max range and silence the chain mid-cast.
Track: Maokai's W — Twisted Advance (14–10s cooldown). Point-and-click root — count its cooldown before stepping up.
Read from Soraka's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Maokai.
This is Soraka's own plan; across 1,808 pooled games the lane is leaning Soraka.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even because both of you just poke and neither Starcall nor a lone Sapling threatens a kill. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 is even since his W-root all-in is fully dodgeable and your Q-heal keeps the trade neutral. |
| Level 3 | Maokai | Maokai leads at 3 once Twisted Advance is up, converting any step-up into a free root on your carry. |
| Levels 4-5 | Maokai | Through 4-5 his sapling slow plus W root give him repeatable pick threat your heals can't pre-empt. |
| Level 6 | Maokai | At 6 Nature's Grasp is a wave-wide unmissable engage while your Wish only heals, so he dictates fights. |
| First item | Maokai | On first item his tank stats shrug off your poke while his root still creates all-in windows. |
| Two+ items | Maokai | With 2+ items his CC chain out-skirmishes your sustain, keeping the pick initiative on his side. |
Levels 1-2 are even: your Starcall poke-and-heal trades against his Sapling Toss zoning and neither of you has the kill pressure to commit, so play the wave and dodge his W. His dash-root arrives before your poke matters, so hold position and keep the silence for that beat. Land the star while his cooldowns are up to fund the heal, and hold the wave near your tower so a landed root has less ground to drag anyone across.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Soraka's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Soraka vs Maokai 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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Soraka, slightly — a 50.77% win rate edge over 1,808 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Soraka has a small statistical edge (50.77% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Soraka has a slight edge (50.77% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Soraka takes Summon Aery on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Revitalize) vs Maokai.
Start World Atlas + potions and back for They WILL buy anti-heal — itemize heal-amp past it. Build Moonstone first, then Redemption / Mikael's, with Mercury's / Swiftness.
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