How to win lane as Singed against Maokai · 50.49% win rate (608 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Build MR — proxy + kite, dodge his root.
Track: Maokai's W — Twisted Advance (14–10s cooldown). His lock-on root. Keep moving.
Read from Singed's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Maokai.
| 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 | Twisted Advance is a 14s untargetable dash-root — Fling cannot even be cast on him mid-dash, and Bramble Smash strips you out of your cloud before Mega Adhesive exists. |
| 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 | Singed | 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 inescapable, and Insanity Potion's Grievous Wounds cuts Sap Magic directly — his healing stops keeping pace with Liandry's burn on that 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.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Singed's side, sampled July 2026.
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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Nobody on paper — a 50.49% win rate over 608 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Singed vs Maokai is a genuine skill matchup: 50.49% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Singed vs Maokai win rate is 50.49%, an even lane decided by execution.
Singed takes Conqueror on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Maokai.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Rylai's Crystal Scepter (perma-slow poison) first, then Riftmaker / Liandry's, with Mercury's Treads.
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