Maokai Support offers a strong utility-based playstyle with a 54.0% win rate across 11,602 matches in high-level play. Here's the optimal build and strategy:

Core Build:

• Summoner Spells: Flash, Ignite
• First Items: Solstice Sleigh → Boots of Swiftness → Trailblazer
• Complete Build: Add Locket of the Iron Solari → Unending Despair → Vigilant Wardstone

Recommended Runes:

• Primary: Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching
• Secondary: Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight
• Shards: Adaptive Force, Health Scaling, Health Scaling

Skill Order: Q > W > E

Strong Against:

• LeBlanc (59.6% WR)
• Pantheon (57.3% WR)
• Pyke (55.7% WR)

Weak Against:

• Galio (45.3% WR)
• Tahm Kench (46.1% WR)
• Zilean (47.1% WR)

Best ADC Synergies:

• Nilah (56.1% WR)
• Swain (55.1% WR)
• Ziggs (55.0% WR)

Key Tips:

1. Place Saplings (E) in bushes for vision control
2. Coordinate engages with your ADC's position
3. Use Ultimate (R) to initiate team fights, then focus on peeling for carries
4. Save W (Twisted Advance) for high-priority targets or defensive peeling

Alternative Builds:

1. Tank Build: Celestial Opposition → Boots of Swiftness → Locket → Unending Despair
2. AP Build (Off-meta): Zaz'Zak's Realmspike → Sorcerer's Shoes → Liandry's Torment

Adapt your build based on team composition and matchup, prioritizing tankiness against burst damage or utility against sustained damage compositions.

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