Elise vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Elise
based on 1,090 Elise vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Maokai
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Elise vs. Maokai matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Elise usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Maokai
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Who is Better, Elise or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 44.0% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Elise does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Elise into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise 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 teamfights.
Elise is a garbage counter to Maokai. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Elise in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise often picks up less CS compared to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Elise versus Maokai build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Elise had an average winrate of 44.0% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Maokai as Elise, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Elise vs Maokai counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.0% win rate overall.
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