Soraka vs Maokai SUPPORT Matchup Guide | LaneStomp

Soraka vs Maokai SUPPORT Matchup Guide | LaneStomp

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Soraka into Maokaimedium

Overview

Prioritize keeping your ADC healthy with while landing to sustain poke and control lane space.
Deny Maokai's brush control by clearing saplings and holding to silence his engage paths.
Use and positioning to protect your ADC from root and coordinate with your ADC for follow-up.

Trading pattern

Use to poke and heal ADC after favorable trades, saving to interrupt Maokai's engage or trap exits.
Deny brush control to reduce Maokai's sapling vision and root follow-up.
Coordinate with ADC to punish Maokai when and are on cooldown, holding peel otherwise.

Danger windows

root combined with enemy ADC follow-up creates high kill threat; hold to counter.
Brush saplings deny vision and set up Maokai's engage; clear brush before stepping forward.
is strongest in river chokepoints; avoid clustering ADC in these areas during dragon setups.

Early game

Track level 2 to time + poke and healing with ADC follow-up.
Clear side brush saplings early to limit Maokai's engage angles and protect ADC access.
Hold wave near your tower to keep ADC safe from engage and sapling traps.

Power spikes

Level 2 unlocks + poke and heal combo; use this window to pressure with ADC follow-up.
Level 3 grants silence, crucial for interrupting Maokai's engage and protecting ADC.
Level 6 enables global heals; use it to sustain through Maokai's all-ins or support ADC engages.

Win conditions

Convert lane sustain and poke into denying Maokai's brush control and engage angles.
Use silence and healing to protect ADC and create windows for aggressive trades.
Set river vision and coordinate with ADC to control dragon area, leveraging for defensive resets and objective fights.

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