Aphelios vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Aphelios
based on 3,624 Aphelios vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Maokai
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Aphelios against Maokai counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Aphelios typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Maokai
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Aphelios into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios also has only a small 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a terribly counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often gets much more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly 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 values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Aphelios versus Maokai build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 47.8% battling Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Maokai as Aphelios, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Aphelios vs Maokai counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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