Amumu vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Amumu
based on 3,864 Amumu vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Maokai
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Amumu in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Amumu versus Maokai counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Amumu normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Amumu and Maokai
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Who is Better, Amumu or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Amumu does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Amumu also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Amumu into Maokai.
Additionally, Amumu has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Amumu is a bad counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu usually accumulates less CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Amumu versus Maokai build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Maokai than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Maokai as Amumu, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Amumu vs Maokai counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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