How to win lane as Tryndamere against Maokai · 52.51% win rate over 577 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Tryndamere | Level 1 favours you — your Q reset trade beats Maokai's weak early damage. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 is even as his Twisted Advance root comes online and threatens a punish. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 stays a skill window between his W-E root poke and your trade discipline. |
| Levels 4-5 | Maokai | Level 4 favours Maokai — his W root into sapling poke, often with jungle, wins the all-in. |
| Level 6 | Tryndamere | Level 6 flips to you: R Undying Rage negates his root-setup all-in and heals you back up. |
| First item | Tryndamere | With lifesteal your Q sustain out-heals his sapling poke and you run him down. |
| Two+ items | Tryndamere | Late you outscale a peel/engage tank who cannot solo-kill you in a sidelane. |
Level 1 favours you — Maokai's early damage is low and your Q Bloodlust reset trades beat his before saplings ramp. Shove and deny him free brush control.
The full Tryndamere 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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