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Champion Select[]

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• ▶️   Sound Effect
• ▶️   "The Isles will bloom again!"

Ban

• ▶️   "Your reckoning will come either way."

Original

Astronaut

A skin's voice-over set may feature: a filtered variation for some or all of the base skin's quotes; additional or replaced quotes. A skin's sound effect set may feature: unique events; replacements of the base skin's SFX for some or all events. Skin variants (e.g. Prestige) inherit all audio from their regular version, but can feature unique quotes or SFX.

Movement[]

First Move[]

• ▶️   ▶️   "Life can come back, once the earth is turned."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Hold tight, my sapling."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Beset by spirits, my home laid to waste!... And they call me twisted."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The water of life succumbed to death. The mortals will follow."

Moving[]

• ▶️   ▶️   "Human nature? Pah!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Fight for the saplings!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Drink deep of what magic remains."
• ▶️   ▶️   "If I am already lost, I will take them with me."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Flee into the forest? I am the forest."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Mortals irritate me, like an itch beneath my bark."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I will punish their wickedness."
• ▶️   ▶️   "What have you wrought, mortals? What have I?"
• ▶️   ▶️   "My heartwood is pure."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I will end this misuse of magic!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Every step, defiance!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I cannot stop—the forest needs me."
• ▶️   ▶️   "We must pull up our roots; darkness corrupts the land."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Reckless mortals!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I will fight for every pebble, every blade of grass."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Living or dead, they are all the same."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The idol is over."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The Mist haunts my every move, yet I resist."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Once they were human. Now, they are only in my way."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Life here existed in a time before death."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Now, where did I put that sapling...?"
• ▶️   ▶️   "They trample life! I will trample them!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I will show them what was lost in the Ruination."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Once my limbs reached for the sky, now for nearest mortal neck!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "A shadow has fallen, as men have fallen."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I cannot find peace! Not even in the smallest branch!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I once had peace. It is better to have purpose!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "There is beauty here, even now, in the human's fear."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Stillness is not peace! It is death!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I do nature's bidding... to the very end."

Moving toward a Brush

• ▶️   ▶️   "The green in these plants, it is something I have lost."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I can watch the mortals doom themselves from here."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The young sprouts beneath my feet... they tremble."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Nature conceals darkness."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Once more into the grass."
• ▶️   ▶️   "There is life still untouched by the Mist."

First Encounter[]

First Encounter with Ahri

• ▶️   ▶️   "I'd like you more if you were a fox."

First Encounter with Aurelion Sol

• ▶️   ▶️   "You create only destruction, Star Forger."

First Encounter with Bard

• ▶️   ▶️   "You make me glad I don't have ears."

First Encounter with Darius

• ▶️   ▶️   "Strength starts in the roots—and you have none."

First Encounter with Elise

• ▶️   ▶️   "Oh, what mortals will do for beauty. Kill, and wear pointy shoes."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Stop putting web in my branches!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I hear your skittering, mortal."

First Encounter with Fiddlesticks

• ▶️   ▶️   "You give sticks a bad name—and fiddles too!"

First Encounter with Garen

• ▶️   ▶️   "Stop carving words into my bark! Everyone knows G <3 K!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Demacia's walls will not stop the Black Mist."

First Encounter with Hecarim

• ▶️   ▶️   "One of many shadows on the Isles. The Shadow of War."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Trample that blade of grass, horseman. I dare you."

First Encounter with Ivern

• ▶️   ▶️   "Only men seek redemption."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Make like a tree and vacate the area."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Kill them with kindness?" Maokai laughs scornfully.
• ▶️   ▶️   "The sapling of the god Willow."

First Encounter with Jayce

• ▶️   ▶️   "A voice follows this one! A song, like those in the Mist!"

First Encounter with Kalista

• ▶️   ▶️   "It is the Isles that were betrayed!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Spirit of vengeance? And what of the forest?"

First Encounter with Karthus

• ▶️   ▶️   "The saplings wish to hear your dirge. Please, sing it... while I destroy you!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "The song of life, now silent."
• ▶️   ▶️   "You make me glad I don't have ears."

First Encounter with Kindred

• ▶️   ▶️   "I am no abomination!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "The forest clings to life, and you would end it!"

First Encounter with Lucian

• ▶️   ▶️   "I am no abomination!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "The forest clings to life, and you would end it!"

First Encounter with Mordekaiser

• ▶️   ▶️   "Another pile of bones wearing a crown."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Rival to the Ruined King—in ruin."

First Encounter with Nautilus

• ▶️   ▶️   "Darkness gathers on the Isles—from every depth."

First Encounter with Poppy

• ▶️   ▶️   "Beware the mortals' gifts."

First Encounter with Sona

• ▶️   ▶️   "You make me glad I don't have ears."

First Encounter with Thresh

• ▶️   ▶️   "A lantern? Ha! The forest is very dark indeed."
• ▶️   ▶️   "It is torture enough being near you, spirit."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The soul of the Isles is lost—beyond your grasp."

First Encounter with Yorick

• ▶️   ▶️   "The Isles have forgotten more than just your name."
• ▶️   ▶️   "So you're what passes for a hero among the fleshlings?"
• ▶️   ▶️   "You would scour the Isles without planting a seed."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Have you ever tried to dig through roots? Good luck, human."

First Encounter with Zyra

• ▶️   ▶️   "A dangerous bloom, that one."
• ▶️   ▶️   "It was a mistake to become human. You will share their doom."
• ▶️   ▶️   "You forgot your roots!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "The most beautiful flowers have the sharpest thorns."

First Encounter with an Axe-Wielding Champion

• ▶️   ▶️   "An axe is no danger if I cut you down first!"

First Encounter with a Mage

• ▶️   ▶️   "Magic came from nature, and will return to nature."

First Encounter with a Shadow Isles Champion

• ▶️   ▶️   "To bleed the bloodless."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Come and meet your end—and... a sapling or two."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Your existence was not meant to be."
• ▶️   ▶️   "There is still life enough within me to grant you death."

First Encounter with a Yordle

• ▶️   ▶️   "Yordle... Stay out of my trunk!"

Taunt[]

Maokai slams a Sapling into the ground, and plants it down firmly.

• ▶️   ▶️   "The seeds of your destruction!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "The sapling does not fall far from the treant!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "If a human screams in the forest, will anyone hear it?"

Taunting an ally Shadow Isles Champion

• ▶️   ▶️   "In the end, darkness destroys itself."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I am nothing like you! I can't be!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "For the forest to bloom, I will tolerate your presence."

Taunt Response

• ▶️   ▶️   "Impressive words—but I'm a tree. I don't care."

Enemy Ivern Taunt Response

• ▶️   Ivern: "Are you going to Treemoot this year? I'm going to dress up as a sassafras!"
  • ▶️   ▶️   Maokai: "No."

Enemy Yorick Taunt Response

• ▶️   Yorick: "I fight to free you as well, though a hatchet would suffice."
  • ▶️   ▶️   Maokai: "Silence, mortal. You only give voice to darkness."

Joke[]

Maokai plays soccer with the Sapling and tosses it high into the air. The Sapling lands in his mouth and he swallows it.

• ▶️   ▶️   "I love all my saplings—especially how they taste." (gulp)
• ▶️   ▶️   "The circle of life starts with death!" (gulp)
• ▶️   ▶️   "If only the humans were vegetarians." (gulp)

Joke Response

• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.

Laugh[]

Maokai's Sapling and left arm begin to laugh. Maokai becomes annoyed.

• ▶️   Sapling giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Sapling giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Sapling giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai groans in annoyance.

Astronaut Maokai

Maokai's M33P and left arm device begin to laugh. Maokai becomes annoyed.

• ▶️   M33P giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   M33P giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Maokai's device laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's device laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's device laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai groans in annoyance.

Attack[]

Basic Attacking[]

• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts deeply.

Attacking[]

• ▶️   "This power is mine to command."
• ▶️   "The blessed waters turn within me."
• ▶️   ▶️   "In the end, they all scream!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Protect what is pure."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Bones break before branches."
• ▶️   ▶️   "To find life, I will snuff yours out."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Where men fall, saplings rise!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "How my branches groan!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Once this land knew solitude."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Life feeds on death!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Torment at your peril."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I refuse to wilt."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Life torn from your grasp."
• ▶️   ▶️   "It is in my nature."
• ▶️   ▶️   "I will sow fear."
• ▶️   ▶️   "There is rot within!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I'll show you 'twisted'!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Rooted out."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The trees have learned violence."
• ▶️   ▶️   "So much life, stolen!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Vengeance may be hollow, but so is my trunk!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "It is good to ungnarl my limbs."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Your life bloom fades!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "You defile the grove!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Madness!"

Ability Casting[]

Using Bramble Smash[]

• ▶️   ▶️   "Stand back!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "This will leave splinters!"
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts.

Using Sapling Toss[]

• ▶️   ▶️   "Away, my sapling."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Seek the forest's foes."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Give them room to spread their leaves!"
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai huffs.

Throwing a Sapling into a Brush

• ▶️   ▶️   "Patient as a tree."
• ▶️   ▶️   "One with nature."

Throwing a Sapling toward a nearby visible Ivern

• ▶️   ▶️   "Greenfather, my sapling wishes to meet you."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The Greenfather spreads life. The Mist will end it."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Careful, my sapling. Ivern is watching."

Throwing a Sapling into an Enemy Ivern's created Brush

• ▶️   ▶️   "Does this make you uncomfortable, Bramblefoot?"

Using Nature's Grasp[]

• ▶️   ▶️   "Lashing roots!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Wretched souls!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Fools!"

Kills and Objectives[]

Killing a Champion

• ▶️   "Another shadow."
• ▶️   "To rest, if only you could."
• ▶️   "Mortals? Hmph."
• ▶️   "You would fight the forest in the forest?"
• ▶️   "Mortals always invading."
• ▶️   "Blood makes the grass grow."
• ▶️   "I would end your burden, but it always returns."
• ▶️   "Wood knocks back!"
• ▶️   "Vengeance bears the sweetest fruit."
• ▶️   "Enough bark, and there's no need for a bite."

Killing Ivern

• ▶️   ▶️   "Mortal to the end."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Pruning dead branches; and odd ones."
• ▶️   ▶️   "A friend of the forest no more."

Killing an Enemy Shadow Isles Champion

• ▶️   ▶️   "Begone, vile spirit!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "The Isles will be cleansed!"

Shopping[]

Buying Doran's Shield

• ▶️   ▶️   "I wondered what happened to that tree."

Buying Iceborn Gauntlet

• ▶️   ▶️   "I do tend to punch things."
• ▶️   ▶️   "From a land where the trees are hardy and tall... and very, very cold."
• ▶️   ▶️   "To strike a blow for nature."

Buying Sunfire Aegis

• ▶️   ▶️   "Burn through the Mist."

Buying Warmog's Armor

• ▶️   ▶️   "Is it woven from branches? I can never tell."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Restoring life."
• ▶️   ▶️   "To aid the waters within my wood."

Recall[]

Maokai squeezes a Sapling under his left arm, but it emerges.

• ▶️   "Uprooted."
• ▶️   "The grove beckons."
• ▶️   Sapling giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Sapling giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Sapling giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's left arm laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.

Astronaut Maokai

M33Ps sprout from Maokai's trunk and play around as he watches caringly.

• ▶️   "Uprooted."
• ▶️   "The grove beckons."
• ▶️   M33P giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   M33P giggles and hiccoughs.
• ▶️   Maokai's device laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's device laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.
• ▶️   Maokai's device laughs nonchalantly and then chokes.

Death[]

• ▶️   ▶️   "Flee, my saplings... "
• ▶️   ▶️   "The forest... "
• ▶️   ▶️   "To the soil... "
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts and then exhales, suffocating
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts and then exhales, suffocating
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts and then exhales, suffocating
• ▶️   ▶️   Maokai grunts and then exhales, suffocating

Respawn

• ▶️   ▶️   "Hope blooms anew."
• ▶️   ▶️   "The maelstrom has not ended!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "I rage against this curse!"
• ▶️   ▶️   "Didn't even notch my trunk."
• ▶️   ▶️   "Another blade stuck in my bark."

Sound Effects[]

The following sounds accompany some of Astronaut Maokai's quotes.

• ▶️   Transmission static
• ▶️   Transmission static
• ▶️   Transmission static
• ▶️   Transmission static

Co-op vs. AI Responses[]

Match Start

• "Do not defy nature!"

Player Team Victory

• "GG!"

Player Team Defeat

• "So this is what they call getting stumped."

Trivia[]

Maokai, the Twisted Treant

• ▶️  "Pruning dead branches; and odd ones." Might be a reference to ex-pro player TheOddOne who is known for popularizing Maokai jungle.
• In the Brazilian localization, Maokai has a quote referencing El Chavo del Ocho.

References[]