Caitlyn vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Caitlyn
based on 14,951 Caitlyn vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Maokai
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several important Caitlyn against Maokai matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Caitlyn normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Caitlyn and Maokai
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Caitlyn makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Caitlyn does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Caitlyn into Maokai.
Additionally, Caitlyn 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Caitlyn is a terribly counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Caitlyn against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn often accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Caitlyn versus Maokai build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Maokai as Caitlyn, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Caitlyn vs Maokai LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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