Aatrox vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Aatrox
based on 7,876 Aatrox vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Maokai
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Win Against Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Aatrox vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Aatrox in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Aatrox vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Aatrox usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aatrox and Maokai
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Aatrox makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Aatrox does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Aatrox also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Aatrox into Maokai.
Furthermore, Aatrox also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a terribly counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox most often gets much more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Aatrox versus Maokai build consist of Randuin's Omen, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Maokai than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 47.7% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Aatrox, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Aatrox vs Maokai clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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