Cho'Gath vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Cho'Gath
based on 3,535 Cho'Gath vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cho'Gath vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Maokai
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
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.
Cho'Gath vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Cho'Gath vs. Maokai matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Cho'Gath normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Maokai
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Cho'Gath also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Cho'Gath into Maokai.
Moreover, Cho'Gath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath 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 team members during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a trash counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cho'Gath against Maokai.
Other Champion Matchups Against Cho'Gath
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath usually gets much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Cho'Gath versus Maokai build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Cho'Gath vs Maokai clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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