Imperial Mandate Maokai Build
Imperial Mandate Maokai build with runes and items. Imperial Mandate Maokai guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Imperial Mandate Maokai build in League of Legends Patch 14.19!
Updated: 2024-05-20 ()
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
E
W
Q
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Imperial Mandate Maokai Runes
Resolve
Precision
Passive
How it works
Imperial Mandate Build specific
- This build is all about Imperial Mandate.
- And also all about slows.
- You support through disrupting fights, being annoying, Slowing/Healing/Buffing and soaking damage.
How to play
Imperial Mandate Build specific
- You rush Imperial Mandate. That is only mandatory item for this build. Then you need to adapt to an enemy team.
- Your slows trigger Font of Life AND Imperial Mandate, healing and buffing your allies.
- Remember that you need to keep close to your allies to trigger Guardian.
- Since LoL Patch 14.1 Imperial Mandate is changed. Now you need your team to proc it to deal any damage. So you need to play a little bit differently. Do not spam mindlessly. Try coordinating it with your team - when they are about to poke or when they go in.
- Font of Life heal can trigger various support items, like Ardent Censer or Staff of Flowing Water or even Moonstone Renewer!
- You need to adapt your items to the game. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR. They heavy on AD? Buy Armor. You need some damage? Well buy that.
Tips and Tricks
General
- You can use E for brush control.
Riot
- Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
- Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
- Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Skill Order
- Bramble SmashQ
- Twisted AdvanceW
- Sapling TossE
- Nature's GraspR
Items
Starting items
Rush this #1
Boots
Good support items
Good tank items
Good MR items
Good Armor items
For mana problems
Situational dmg items
Counter healing
Counter shielding
For the last fight
Example final build