Blitzcrank vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Blitzcrank
based on 6,246 Blitzcrank vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Blitzcrank vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank against Maokai
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 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Blitzcrank in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Blitzcrank against Maokai counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Blitzcrank usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Blitzcrank and Maokai
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Who is Better, Blitzcrank or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Blitzcrank usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Blitzcrank makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Blitzcrank does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Blitzcrank also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Blitzcrank into Maokai.
Furthermore, Blitzcrank 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Blitzcrank is a garbage counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Blitzcrank against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank most often picks up less CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Blitzcrank versus Maokai build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Frozen Heart. When Blitzcrank included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 47.0% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Maokai as Blitzcrank, Blitzcrank players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Blitzcrank vs Maokai counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
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