Current version[]

V14.5

• Stats
  • Base movement speed reduced to 330 from 335.
• Bramble Smash
  • Bonus monster damage increased to 120 / 130 / 140 / 150 / 160 from 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160.
• Twisted Advance
  • Cooldown increased to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds from 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.

V14.4

• Stats
  • Base armor reduced to 35 from 39.
• Bramble Smash
  • Base damage reduced to 65 / 115 / 165 / 215 / 265 from 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Root duration reduced to 0.75 − 2.25 (based on distance traveled) seconds from 0.8 − 2.6 (based on distance traveled).

V14.3

• Stats
  • Base mana regeneration reduced to 6 from 7.2.
• Sap Magic
  • Removed: Heal no longer has a base value of 4 − 34 (based on level).
  • Heal health ratio increased to 4% − 12.8% (based on level) from 4% − 12% (based on level).
• Bramble Smash
  • Cooldown reduced to 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5 seconds from 8 / 7.25 / 6.5 / 5.75 / 5.
  • Mana cost reduced to 40 from 60.
• Sapling Toss
  • Cooldown changed to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds from 14 at all ranks.
  • Mana cost changed to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 from 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 / 85.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Cooldown changed to 130 / 110 / 90 seconds from 120 / 110 / 100.

V13.15

• Bramble Smash
  • Bonus monster damage reduced to 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 from 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 / 180.

V13.4

• Bramble Smash
  • Health ratio increased to 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4% of target's maximum health from 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3%.
• Sapling Toss
  • Cooldown increased to 14 seconds from 10.
  • Base damage reduced to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 from 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 / 155.
  • Empowered base damage reduced to 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 from 110 / 160 / 210 / 260 / 310.
  • Damage AP ratio reduced to 25% AP from 35% AP.
  • Empowered AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 70% AP.
  • Slow AP ratio reduced to 1% per 100 AP from 4% per 100 AP.
  • Slow health ratio increased to 1% per 100 bonus health from 0.9% per bonus health.

V13.1b

• Bramble Smash
  • Bonus monster damage reduced to 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 / 180 from 120 / 140 / 160 / 180 / 200.
• Sapling Toss
  • Damage AP ratio reduced to 35% AP from 40% AP.
  • Damage health ratio reduced to 5% bonus health from 6% bonus health.
  • Empowered AP ratio reduced to 70% AP from 80% AP.
  • Empowered health ratio reduced to 10% bonus health from 12% bonus health.

V12.23

• Sap Magic
  • Heal health ratio increased to 4% − 12% (based on level) maximum health from 4% − 10% (based on level).
• Bramble Smash
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270 from 65 / 110 / 155 / 200 / 245.
  • Bonus monster damage increased to 120 / 140 / 160 / 180 / 200 from 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160.

V12.22 - November 17th Hotfix

• Sapling Toss
  • Empowered slow health ratio increased to 0.9% per 100 bonus health from 0.6% per 100 bonus health.
  • Empowered slow AP ratio increased to 4% per 100 AP from 2% per 100 AP.

V12.22

• Nature's Grasp
  • Bug Fix: Smaller sized champions can no longer sometimes fit between the gaps of the missiles.

V12.20

• Sap Magic
  • Heal health ratio reduced to 4% − 10% (based on level) maximum health from 4.5% − 12% (based on level).
• Nature's Grasp
  • Cooldown increased to 120 / 110 / 100 seconds from 120 / 100 / 80.

V12.18

• Sap Magic
  • Heal health ratio reduced to 4.5% − 12% (based on level) maximum health from 4.8% − 14% (based on level).
• Bramble Smash
  • Bonus monster damage increased to 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160 from 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120.
  • Bug Fix: No longer sometimes pulls targets closer to him as opposed to knocking them away.
• Sapling Toss
  • Damage AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 42.5% AP.
    • Empowered damage AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 85% AP.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Bug Fix: Width of primary missiles reverted to 240 from 170.
    • Width of secondary missiles is still reduced.

V12.17

• Sap Magic
  • Base heal reduced to 4 − 34 (based on level) from 5 − 45 (based on level).
  • Heal health ratio increased to 4.8% − 14% (based on level) maximum health from 4.5% − 11% (based on level)
  • New Effect: Basic attacks and abilities from large monsters now reduce its cooldown by 1.5 seconds.
  • New Effect: Cooldown is now also reduced by 4 seconds if Sapling Toss hits at least one champion or epic monster.
• Bramble Smash
  • Base damage changed to 65 / 110 / 155 / 200 / 245 from 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230.
  • New Effect: Now deals 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3% of target's maximum health, capped at 9999 against non-champions.
  • New Effect: Now deals 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 bonus damage against monsters.
• Sapling Toss
  • Removed: No longer deals bonus damage equal to 7 / 7.25 / 7.5 / 7.75 / 8% (+ 0.7% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health.
  • Base damage increased to 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 / 155 from 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120.
    • Empowered base damage increased to 110 / 160 / 210 / 260 / 310 from 40 / 90 / 140 / 190 / 240.
  • New Effect: Damage now scales with 42.5% AP, increased to 85% AP if placed in a brush.
  • New Effect: Damage now scales with 6% of his bonus health, increased to 12% if placed in a brush.
  • Removed: No longer applies empowered effects against minions if placed in a brush.
  • Mana cost reduced to 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 / 85 from 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100.
  • Slow increased to 45% from 35%.
  • New Effect: Slow is now increased by 2% per 100 AP and 0.6% per 100 bonus health if placed in a brush.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Missile speed increased to 100 / 400 / 700 / 750 (based on seconds) from 50 / 300 / 550 / 650 (based on seconds).
  • New Effect: Now grants him 40 / 50 / 60% bonus movement speed that decays over 2 seconds whenever an enemy champion is hit.
  • Undocumented: Missile width reduced to 170 from 240.^(bug)

V12.13

• Sapling Toss
  • Bug Fix: Spell shields now block both the explosion and the damage over time effect from empowered saplings, instead of one or the other.

V12.10

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 635 from 565.
  • Health growth increased to 109 from 95.
  • Armor growth increased to 5.2 from 4.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
• Sap Magic
  • Base heal reduced to 5 − 45 (based on level) from 5 − 65 (based on level).
  • Heal health ratio reduced to 4.5% − 11% (based on level) maximum health from 5% − 15% (based on level).

V11.22

• Sap Magic
  • Heal health ratio reduced to 5% − 15% (based on level) maximum health from 7% − 15% (based on level).
• Twisted Advance
  • Base damage reduced to 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 from 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170.

V11.16

• Sap Magic
  • Heal health ratio increased to 7% − 15% (based on level) maximum health from 6% − 13% (based on level).
• Sapling Toss
  • Base damage reduced to 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 from 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125.
    • Empowered base damage reduced to 40 / 90 / 140 / 190 / 240 from 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 / 250.
  • AP ratio reduced to 0.7% per 100 AP from 0.8% per 100 AP.
    • Empowered AP ratio reduced to 1.4% per 100 AP from 1.6% per 100 AP.

V11.2

• Sapling Toss
  • Mana cost increased to 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 from 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80.
  • AP ratio reduced to 0.8% per 100 AP from 1% per 100 AP.
    • Empowered sapling AP ratio reduced to 1.6% per 100 AP from 2% per 100 AP.

V11.1

• Stats
  • Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
  • Base attack damage increased to 64 from 63.54.

V10.20

• Bramble Smash
  • Base damage reduced to 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 from 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250.

V10.10

• Stats
  • Base mana reduced to 375 from 377.28.
• Bramble Smash
  • Mana cost increased to 60 from 50.

V9.24b

• Sapling Toss
  • Bug Fix: Enemies that walk over an empowered Sapling will no longer gain vision of Maokai.

V9.21

• Bramble Smash
  • Bug Fix: No longer damages nearby targets if begun casting it right before dying.
• Twisted Advance
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 at all ranks from 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80.
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 from 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Root duration increased to 0.8 − 2.6 (based on distance traveled) from 0.6 − 2.4 (based on distance traveled).

V9.9

• Bramble Smash
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 from 65 / 105 / 145 / 185 / 225.

V8.22

• Sapling Toss
  • Target's health ratio increased to 7 / 7.25 / 7.5 / 7.75 / 8% of target's maximum health from 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5 / 8%.
  • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 11.

V8.17

• Nature's Grasp
  • Bug Fix: SFX now correctly line up with the ability's duration.

V8.14

• Meowkai
  • Bug Fix: Laugh SFX no longer stack when the emote is spammed.

V8.8

• Meowkai
  • Bug Fix: The catling that he holds in his hand has been found and safely returned to him.

V8.7

• Meowkai
  • Bug Fix: Weighting has been adjusted on his chin to avoid a weird texture break.

V8.2

• Twisted Advance
  • New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

V8.1

• Twisted Advance
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where chaining certain dashes together would cause the second dash to last for the same duration as the first. This is why Twisted Advance took so long to reach a target after exiting Tahm Kench's Abyssal Voyage.

V7.24

• Bramble Smash
  • Base damage reduced to 65 / 105 / 145 / 185 / 225 from 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250.

V7.22

• Stats
  • New: Now has +15% bonus attack speed at level 1.
  • Base armor increased to 39 from 30.

V7.17

• Sap Magic
  • Removed: Healing procing when attacking a ward.

V7.16

• Sapling Toss
  • Target's maximum health ratio reduced to 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5 / 8% of target's maximum health from 8% at all ranks.

V7.14

• Twisted Advance
  • Changed several interactions where it overwrotes any spell queuing commands, instead forcing the caster to immediately begin basic-attacking once the ability completed.

V7.13

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 565 from 540.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Range increased to 3000 from 2500.
  • Cooldown reduced to 120 / 100 / 80 seconds from 120 / 110 / 100.

V7.11

• Sap Magic
  • Cooldown reduced to 30 / 25 / 20 (based on level) seconds from 30 / 25 / 20 (based on level).
  • Base healing reduced to 5 − 65 (based on level) from 10 − 130 (based on level)
  • Health ratio on heal increased to 6% − 13% (based on level) maximum health from 4.5% − 10.5% (based on level) maximum health
• Sapling Toss
  • Maximum health AP ratio reduced to 1% per 100 AP from 2% per 100 AP.
  • Sapling base movement speed reduced to 400 at all levels from 427.5 − 470 (based on level).
  • New Effect: Sapling movement speed is increased when you have boots:
    • Increases to 425 with Boots of Speed.
    • Increases to 445 with Berserker's Greaves, Ionian Boots of Lucidity, Mercury's Treads, Ninja Tabi and Sorcerer's Shoes.
    • Increases to 460 with Boots of Mobility and Boots of Swiftness.
  • Brush sapling damage changed to 67% on detonation and two ticks of 67% each from 100% on detonation and two ticks of 50% each. Total damage unchanged.
  • Sapling duration in brush changed to 30 (+ 2.5 per 100 bonus health) seconds from 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70.

V7.10 May 17th Hotfix

• Sapling Toss
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug allowing it to be casted globally.

V7.10

• Sap Magic
  • Removed: Procing against structures.
  • Cast time reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.275.
  • New Effect: Cast time now scales down with attack speed.
• Bramble Smash
  • Mana cost changed to 50 at all ranks from 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65.
  • Cooldown reduced to 8 / 7.25 / 6.5 / 5.75 / 5 seconds from 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6.
  • Maximum knockback distance increased to 300 from 275.
• Sapling Toss
  • Mana cost increased to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 from 60 at all ranks.
  • Base damage reduced to 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 from 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145.
  • Maximum health ratio increased to 8% target's maximum health from 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5 / 8% target's maximum health.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused Nature's Grasp to fire without going on cooldown if Maokai died while casting it.

V7.9

• General
  • New splash artwork for Charred Maokai, Totemic Maokai and Festive Maokai.
• Stats
  • Base health reduced to 540 from 572.2.
  • Health growth increased to 95 from 90.
  • Health regeneration reduced to 5 from 7.
  • Base armor increased to 30 from 28.72.
• Sap Magic
  • Rework: Maokai gathers magical energy from the nature around him. Every few seconds, his next attack uses that energy to heal him for 10 − 130 (based on level) (+ 4.5 − 10.5 (based on level)% maximum health). Each time Maokai casts a spell or if struck by an enemy's spell, Sap Magic's cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds. Will not trigger if above 95% health.
  • Static Cooldown: 30 / 25 / 20 (based on level) seconds
• Bramble Smash
  • Renamed Bramble Smash from Arcane Smash.
  • Cast time reduced to 0.35 seconds from 0.383.
  • New Effect: Closer targets are knocked back slightly more.
  • Slow increased to 99% at all ranks from 20 / 27 / 34 / 41 / 48%.
  • Slow duration reduced to 0.25 seconds from 1.5.
• Twisted Advance
  • Mana cost changed to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 from 75.
  • Damage changed to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+ 40% AP) from 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13% (+ 3% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health.
  • Root duration reduced to 1 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.4 seconds from 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2.
• Sapling Toss
  • New Effect: New ability icon.
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 at all ranks from 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100.
  • Cooldown reduced to 11 seconds from 12.
  • Sapling duration reduced to 30 seconds at all ranks from 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60.
  • Base damage reduced to 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 from 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240.
  • Removed: Damage scaling with 60% AP.
  • New Effect: Damage now scales with 6 / 6.5 / 7 / 7.5 / 8% (+ 2% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health.
  • Slow reduced to 35% from 50%.
  • Slow duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.
  • New Effect: Sapling duration is increased to 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 seconds when placed in brush.
  • New Effect: Sapling placed in brush deals double damage over 2 seconds to all enemies hit.
  • New Effect: Damage is capped at 300 against non-champions, and 600 when placed in brush.
• Nature's Grasp
  • Rework: Maokai summons a colossal wall of brambles and thorns that slowly advances forwards, dealing 150 / 225 / 300 (+ 75% AP) magic damage and rooting any enemies struck for 0.6 − 2.4 (based on distance traveled) seconds.
  • Mana Cost: 100
  • Cooldown: 120 / 110 / 100 seconds
  • Range: 2500

Release version[]

V7.4

• Arcane Smash
  • Mana cost increased to 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 from 45 at all ranks.
• Sapling Toss
  • Removed: Dealing 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+ 40% AP) magic damage on landing impact.

V6.11

• Stats
  • Health regen reduced to 7 from 8.678
  • Health regen growth reduced to 0.75 from 0.85
• Arcane Smash
  • Cooldown increased to 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6 seconds from 6 at all ranks

V6.6

• Stats
  • Magic resistance increased to 32 from 30
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 1.25 from 0
• Sapling Toss
  • Sapling duration increased to 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 seconds from 35 at all ranks
  • Removed: Saplings stacking on top of each other
  • New Effect: Saplings thrown at the same location shuffle a short distance away from one another

V5.22

• Stats
  • Mana increased to 377.28 from 327.28
  • Mana growth reduced to 43 from 46

V5.17

• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • Cooldown increased to 60 / 50 / 40 seconds from 40 / 30 / 20

V5.7

• Sap Magic
  • Heal changed to 5 / 6 / 7 (based on level)% maximum health from 7 at all levels

V4.20

• Visual Update
  • New models and textures for all skins.
  • New splash artwork for Original Maokai.
  • New ability icons.
  • Animations updated.

V4.17

• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • Maximum bonus damage reduced to 100 / 150 / 200 from 200 / 250 / 300

V4.14

• Twisted Advance
  • Base damage reduced to 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13% of target's maximum health from 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5 / 15
• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • New Effect: Has a maximum duration (10 seconds)

V4.11

• Arcane Smash
  • Mana cost reduced to 45 from 55
  • Slow duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2
• Twisted Advance
  • Removed: Cast time
  • Mana cost reduced to 75 at all ranks from 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95
  • Cooldown reduced to 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 seconds from 13 at all ranks
  • Damage changed to 9 / 10.5 / 12 / 13.5 / 15% (+ 4% per 100 AP) of target's maximum health from 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 (+ 80% AP)
  • New Effect: Deals 300 maximum damage to minions and monsters
  • Cast range reduced to 525 from 650
• Sapling Toss
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 from 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110
  • Impact damage reduced to 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 from 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180
  • Explosion damage reduced to 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 from 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280
  • New Effect: Explosion slows enemies hit by 50% for 1 second
  • Sapling movement speed changed to 450 (+ Maokai's bonus movement speed) from 475
• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • Targeting changed to self from ground
  • Mana cost reduced to 40 from 75
  • Radius reduced to 475 from 550
  • New Effect: Absorbed damage is displayed as floating text (like shield mitigation)

V4.6

• Arcane Smash
  • Bug Fix: Slow value not matching tooltip
  • Slow increased to 20 / 27 / 34 / 41 / 48% from 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40

V4.5

• Stats
  • Armor increased to 22 from 18

V4.2

• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • Bug Fix: Incorrect bonus damage per 1 damage absorbed (1.6 instead of the intended 2)

V3.15

• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • New Effect: Icon has a counter showing current stored damage

V1.0.0.152

• Stats
  • Movement speed increased to 335 from 310

V1.0.0.147b

• Sapling Toss
  • Removed: Explosion particle being visible in fog of war

August 7th Hotfix

• Twisted Advance
  • Bug Fix: Maokai becoming untargetable or disappearing after casting and rooting

V1.0.0.134

• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • New Effect: Allied-ultimate HUD indicator will turn grey on-cast

V1.0.0.125

• Sap Magic
  • Bug Fix: Incorrect values displaying per rank

V1.0.0.123

• Twisted Advance
  • New Effect: Maokai will attempt to attack the target enemy champion he roots

V1.0.0.122

• Sap Magic
  • New Effect: Maokai can heal while silenced

V1.0.0.115

• Stats
  • Health per level increased to 90 from 82
  • Armor per level increased to 4 from 3.5
  • Movement speed increased to 310 from 305

V1.0.0.114

• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • Bug Fix: Reducing true damage

V1.0.0.113

• Arcane Smash
  • Base damage increased to 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 from 50 / 95 / 140 / 185 / 230
• Twisted Advance
  • Base damage increased to 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 from 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200
• Sapling Toss
  • Sapling duration increased to 35 seconds from 25
• Vengeful Maelstrom
  • Mana cost reduced to 75 at all ranks from 75 / 125 / 175
  • Cost per second reduced to 30 at all ranks from 30 / 35 / 40
  • Cast time reduced by 50%

V1.0.0.112

• Twisted Advance
  • Bug Fix: Rank-up tooltip incorrectly displaying increasing cost values
  • Bug Fix: Death animation not playing

V1.0.0.111

• Added

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