Ekko vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Ekko
based on 7,223 Ekko vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ekko vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Ekko vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Ekko
Tips for Playing as Ekko against Maokai
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
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.
Ekko vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Ekko in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several influential Ekko against Maokai matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Ekko’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ekko may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Ekko normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ekko and Maokai
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Who is Better, Ekko or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ekko usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Ekko makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Ekko does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Ekko also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Ekko into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ekko has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ekko 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.
Ekko is a garbage counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ekko against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ekko 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ekko most often gets more CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ekko versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Ekko used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ekko had an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Ekko, Ekko players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Ekko vs Maokai counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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