Darius vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Darius
based on 5,910 Darius vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Maokai
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Darius in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Darius versus Maokai matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Darius usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Maokai
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Who is Better, Darius or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Darius usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Darius makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Darius does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Darius into Maokai.
Furthermore, Darius has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Darius vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Darius is a garbage counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Darius against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Darius to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius usually picks up much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Darius versus Maokai build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Maokai as Darius, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Darius vs Maokai fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Darius are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.