Aurelion Sol vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Aurelion Sol
based on 2,536 Aurelion Sol vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aurelion Sol vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Aurelion Sol vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Aurelion Sol
Tips for Playing as Aurelion Sol against Maokai
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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.
Aurelion Sol vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Aurelion Sol in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Aurelion Sol against Maokai counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aurelion Sol may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Aurelion Sol typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aurelion Sol and Maokai
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Who is Better, Aurelion Sol or Maokai?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aurelion Sol usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Aurelion Sol makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Aurelion Sol does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Aurelion Sol also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Aurelion Sol into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aurelion Sol has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aurelion Sol 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 allies during teamfights.
Aurelion Sol is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aurelion Sol against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aurelion Sol to counter Maokai during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aurelion Sol on average racks up much more CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Aurelion Sol versus Maokai build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Aurelion Sol 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, Aurelion Sol had an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Maokai as Aurelion Sol, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Aurelion Sol vs Maokai counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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