Azir vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Azir
based on 2,733 Azir vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Maokai
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Azir vs. Maokai matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Azir usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Maokai
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Who is Better, Azir or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Azir does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Azir versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Maokai as Azir, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Azir vs Maokai fights, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Azir are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.