How to win lane as Kled against Maokai · 53.25% win rate (154 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Dodge his W root — Q-pull and out-aggro him.
Track: Maokai's W — Twisted Advance (14–10s cooldown). His lock-on root. Dodge it.
Read from Kled's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Maokai.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is genuinely even — you have no spammable poke and want Skaarl's health intact, while his saplings and passive heal can't punish a quiet wave. |
| Level 2 | Kled | W comes online — your fourth-and-on shotgun shots out-trade his autos and his sustain can't keep pace. |
| Level 3 | Kled | Full re-E combo (E-W-E) plus the Bear Trap shackle out-damages his tank stats before his slow trade pattern matters. |
| Levels 4-5 | Kled | You stack W procs and remount off his low DPS, taking a free health bar every trade he can't match. |
| Level 6 | Kled | R re-engages or escapes his W root and extends a roam — he's an immobile tank who can't answer your tempo. |
| First item | Kled | Your Eclipse Sheen proc plus Violent Tendencies' four attacks is your peak; Executioner's blunts his heal. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | A two-item Maokai soaks your burst and roots your team in fights — close the lane before his tank scaling takes over. |
Level 1 is even — neither of you wants to commit, and his saplings plus passive sustain just sit there while you preserve Skaarl's health. The lane flips at 2: W's bonus shotgun shots online, then 3 gives you the full re-E (E through him, W-pull, recast E back) and your Q's percent-max-HP damage cuts through his tank build faster than his auto trades hurt you. Dodge his W root dash — that's the only thing that turns a trade against you — and don't get greedy into a sapling-heavy wave.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Kled's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Kled 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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Kled, slightly — a 53.25% win rate edge over 154 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Kled has a small statistical edge (53.25% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Kled has a slight edge (53.25% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Kled takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Unflinching) vs Maokai.
Start Doran's Blade + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Eclipse (burst + all-in sustain) first, then Sterak's Gage, with Mercury's Treads.
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