Alistar vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Alistar
based on 2,748 Alistar vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Maokai
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Alistar against Maokai matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Alistar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Maokai
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Who is Better, Alistar or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.4% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Alistar into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a garbage counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually gets a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Alistar versus Maokai build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 46.4% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Maokai as Alistar, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Alistar vs Maokai battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Alistar are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.