How to win lane as Singed against Maokai · 50.49% win rate over 608 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neither champion has kill pressure at level 1 — his passive heals off Poison Trail grazes and you have no Fling engage yet, so both sides farm. |
| Level 2 | Maokai | Maokai's W dash-root comes online and he can pin you in place, strip you out of your own cloud with Q knockback, and trade cleanly before Mega Adhesive is available. |
| Level 3 | Maokai | His full W-Q-sapling combo trades favorably: he roots you, knocks you back, and his passive heals off every spell hit while you are still trying to build cloud stacks. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Both kits are online but neither has items — you proxy to deny him agency and he has no chase to stop you, making the farm window genuinely even. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Insanity Potion absorbs his poke budget and makes the run-past safe; his W root no longer guarantees a punish because you can Fling before he closes the gap. |
| First item | Even / skill | Rylai's makes Poison Trail an inescapable slow — Maokai cannot walk out of the cloud and his passive sustain cannot keep pace with Liandry's burn on his large HP pool. |
| Two+ items | Singed | With two items your poison attrition outpaces his healing entirely and he is too slow to escape your run-throughs; Maokai is stuck defending his tower while you farm freely. |
At level 1 Maokai's passive heals off every spell in the wave, so you cannot whittle him down with shallow Poison Trail grazes — each sapling he throws chips you back. Respect his trading power and focus on last-hitting; the level 1 window is an honest coin-flip and there is no cheap angle to punish. When level 2 arrives, his W dash-root is the ability that defines this lane: if he roots you mid-run, his Q knockback pops you out of your own poison cloud and the full three-ability combo will chunk you badly. Do not start your run-past until you have Mega Adhesive to threaten a root of your own, and even then he trades even or better through level 3.
The full Singed 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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