Annie vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Annie
based on 2,553 Annie vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Annie vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Annie vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Annie
Tips for Playing as Annie against Maokai
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Annie in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several influential Annie against Maokai matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Annie typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Annie and Maokai
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Who is Better, Annie or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Annie usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Annie makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Annie does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Annie also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Annie into Maokai.
Additionally, Annie has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Annie 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Annie is a terribly counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Annie against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie usually gets more CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Annie versus Maokai build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Annie incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Maokai as Annie, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Annie vs Maokai face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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