Ahri vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Ahri
based on 4,428 Ahri vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Maokai
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Ahri versus Maokai counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Ahri often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Maokai
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Who is Better, Ahri or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Ahri does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Ahri into Maokai.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a trash counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often gets much more CS compared to Maokai. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ahri versus Maokai build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 44.6% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Maokai as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Ahri vs Maokai counters, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.6% winrate overall.
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