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Maokai
Champion Sneak Peek: Maokai, the Twisted Treant[]
By ByronicHero[1]
Sometimes, when you look at the League of Legends champion lineup, it's easy to feel like you've seen it all. You've seen
, , , , , and with gigantic . But there's something that this next champion has that none of them do: roots. That's right, while you may have been engaged in epic, pitched battles with , , , , , , and mutant , I bet you've never had to fight a tree before! Introducing , the Twisted Treant; a groundbreaking new champion in the League of Legends whose bark may or may not be worse than his bite. You decide.Champion Update: Maokai[]
By Conor 'fizzNchips' Sheehy[2]
the latest champ to go into the champion update workshop, and has come out the other end with some fancy new bark to wear on all of his skins!
Just like
, Maokai's rig was in a fairly good spot while the rest of his look was a bit... well... old. So we changed it up, updating his model, textures, spell effects, and a few of his animations on his base model and each of his skins!Midseason 2017[]
getting back in touch with his roots as a vengeful nature spirit. By summoning a giant wall of .- Abilities
- Sap Magic
- Bramble Smash
![Airborne icon](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/d/d6/Airborne_icon.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/20?cb=20171201223933)
![Slow icon](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/7/78/Slow_icon.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/20?cb=20171201224744)
Trivia[]
- Maokai is voiced by Jay Preston, whom also voices Maksim in Ruination.
- Pre-V7.9, is voiced by Scott McNeil.
- ,
4Veigar in
Legends of Runeterra and are also voiced by the same voice actor.
, ,
- ,
- Pre-V7.9, is voiced by Scott McNeil.
- Maokai is named after a Riot 3D artist at the time.[4]
- He re-explores the treant theme of the cancelled champion .
- The plant-growing theme was re-explored by .
- During development, he was called Maoki or Moakai.
- For Maokai's Visual Update, rooting was made to resemble .
Media[]
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Maokai Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Maokai Xiao)
Maokai Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Maokai Xiao)
Maokai Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Edmundo 'odnumde' Sanchez)
Haunted Maokai Model 1 (by Riot Artist Hector Moran)
Haunted Maokai Model 2 (by Riot Artist Hector Moran)
Haunted Maokai Model 3 (by Riot Artist Hector Moran)
Maokai Update Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Kienan 'Knockwurst' Lafferty)
Maokai Update Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Kienan 'Knockwurst' Lafferty)
Maokai "Legends of Runeterra" Splash Concept 1 (by Riot Contracted Artists Sixmorevodka Studio)
Maokai "Legends of Runeterra" Illustration 1 (by Riot Contracted Artists Sixmorevodka Studio)
Maokai "Legends of Runeterra" Splash Concept 2 (by Riot Contracted Artists Sixmorevodka Studio)
Maokai "Legends of Runeterra" Illustration 2 (by Riot Contracted Artists Sixmorevodka Studio)
Sapling "Legends of Runeterra" Illustration (by Riot Contracted Artists Sixmorevodka Studio)
Maokai "Ruined King" Concept 1 (by Riot Contracted Artist Baldi Konjin)
Maokai "Ruined King" Concept 2 (by Riot Contracted Artist Grace Liu)
Maokai "Ruined King" Model 1 (by Riot Contracted Artist Brian Jones)
Maokai "Ruined King" Model 2 (by Riot Contracted Artist Brian Jones)
Maokai "Ruined King" Portrait (by Riot Artist Hicham Habchi)
Charred Maokai Ability Concept (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Totemic Maokai Ability Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Totemic Maokai Ability Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Totemic Maokai Ability Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Totemic Maokai Update Splash Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Mike Azevedo)
Totemic Maokai Update Splash Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Mike Azevedo)
Festive Maokai Update Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Kienan 'Knockwurst' Lafferty)
Festive Maokai Update Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Kienan 'Knockwurst' Lafferty)
Festive Maokai Update Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Kienan 'Knockwurst' Lafferty)
Festive Maokai Update Concept 4 (by Riot Artist Kienan 'Knockwurst' Lafferty)
Festive Maokai Ability Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Festive Maokai Ability Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Festive Maokai Ability Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Festive Maokai Update Model (by Riot Artists DragonFly Studio)
Festive Maokai Update Splash Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Mike Azevedo)
Festive Maokai Update Splash Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Mike Azevedo)
Meowkai Ability Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Meowkai Ability Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Meowkai Ability Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Meowkai Ability Concept 4 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Meowkai Ability Concept 5 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Meowkai Ability Concept 6 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Meowkai Ability Concept 7 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Meowkai Model (by Riot Artist Maddy 'MissMaddy' Taylor Kenyon)
Meokai Onesie Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Alexandra Cohen)
Meokai Onesie Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Alexandra Cohen)
Meokai Onesie Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Alexandra Cohen)
Victorious Maokai Ability Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Victorious Maokai Ability Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Thomas 'Hylia' Randby)
Victorious Maokai Splash Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Jojo So)
Victorious Maokai Splash Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Jojo So)
Worldbreaker Maokai Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Oussama Agazzoum)
Worldbreaker Maokai Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Oussama Agazzoum)
Worldbreaker Maokai Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Oussama Agazzoum)
Worldbreaker Maokai Concept 4 (by Riot Artist Oussama Agazzoum)
Worldbreaker Maokai Concept 5 (by Riot Artist Oussama Agazzoum)
Worldbreaker Maokai Concept 6 (by Riot Contracted Artist Karena Zhou)
Worldbreaker Maokai Model 1 (by Riot Contracted Artist Zhennan Xuan)
Worldbreaker Maokai Model 2 (by Riot Contracted Artist Zhennan Xuan)
Worldbreaker Maokai "Legends of Runeterra" Illustration 1 (by Riot Contracted Artists Caravan Studio)
Worldbreaker Maokai "Legends of Runeterra" Illustration 2 (by Riot Contracted Artists Caravan Studio)
Worldbreaker Sapling "Legends of Runeterra" Illustration (by Riot Contracted Artists Caravan Studio)
Astronaut Maokai Splash Concept (by Riot Contracted Artist Terence Cantal)
DRX Maokai Concept 1 (by Riot Artist Steve Zheng)
DRX Maokai Concept 2 (by Riot Artist Steve Zheng)
DRX Maokai Concept 3 (by Riot Artist Steve Zheng)
DRX Maokai Concept 4 (by Riot Artist Taylor 'Medaforcer' Jansen)
DRX Maokai Concept 5 (by Riot Artist Taylor 'Medaforcer' Jansen)
DRX Maokai Splash Concept (by Riot Artist Horace 'Hozure' Hsu)
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