How to win lane as Urgot against Maokai · 53.68% win rate (475 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Dodge his W root — shred his HP from range.
Track: Maokai's W — Twisted Advance (14–10s cooldown). His lock-on root. Dodge it.
Read from Urgot's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Maokai.
This is Urgot's own plan; across 475 pooled games the lane is leaning Urgot.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even — respect his saplings and the first W root. |
| Level 2 | Urgot | At level 2 you shred his thin early armor with Q and Purge. |
| Level 3 | Urgot | At level 3 your full kit out-trades his sustain-and-root pattern. |
| Levels 4-5 | Urgot | Levels 4-5 you punish every W cooldown for a winning trade. |
| Level 6 | Urgot | Your level-6 R executes him before his tank scaling matters. |
| First item | Urgot | First item your Cleaver-Purge shred out-damages his W sustain. |
| Two+ items | Maokai | At 2-plus items full-tank Maokai's CC and peel outscale your lane pressure. |
Level 1 is a skill start — don't walk into his sapling zone or eat a free W root. From level 2 you take over: Corrosive Charge and Purge shred his weak early armour, and even when he lands W the root just holds him inside your damage. Trade on his 14s W and deny his sustain from mattering.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Urgot's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Urgot 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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Urgot, slightly — a 53.68% win rate edge over 475 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Urgot has a small statistical edge (53.68% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Urgot has a slight edge (53.68% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Urgot takes Press the Attack 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 Black Cleaver (shred + the leg tempo) first, then Sterak's Gage, with Mercury's Treads.
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