How to win lane as Yone against Maokai · 47.42% win rate over 1,280 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Yone | Maokai has no level-1 kill threat while your Q dash trades freely. |
| Level 2 | Yone | At level 2 your dash and poke-dodging keep the lane in your favour. |
| Level 3 | Yone | Level 3 stays yours as his root and saplings stay on cooldown. |
| Levels 4-5 | Yone | Levels 4-5 remain yours — you out-trade every windowed engage. |
| Level 6 | Yone | At 6 you dodge Nature's Grasp and hold priority to roam. |
| First item | Yone | Your first item lets you shove and dive his passive frame. |
| Two+ items | Yone | Late, Yone stays a threat by dodging his root and outplaying him. |
Maokai brings little kill pressure to lane — his Sapling Toss (E) poke is slow and easy to sidestep, and your Mortal Steel (Q3) dash lets you walk up and out-trade him from level 1. Take the CS you want; just watch his W Twisted Advance root, which is his only real gap-closer and jungle-gank setup. Don't hug the wave into his root range with the enemy jungler nearby.
The full Yone 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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