The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
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.
The stats shown here highlight several strategic Blitzcrank vs. Maokai counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Blitzcrank usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Blitzcrank usually wins when taking on Maokai, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Blitzcrank makes a good counter to Maokai.
While Blitzcrank does have a higher win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Blitzcrank also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Blitzcrank into Maokai.
Additionally, Blitzcrank also 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 trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Maokai matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Blitzcrank is a good counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Blitzcrank against Maokai.
If you would like to truly master Blitzcrank in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Blitzcrank versus Maokai build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Frozen Heart, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Blitzcrank bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank boasted an average winrate of 52.2% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Blitzcrank, Blitzcrank players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Blitzcrank vs Maokai face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Blitzcrank are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.