Elise vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Elise
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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
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.
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
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 stats shown here clarify several influential Elise against Maokai counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between these two champions. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Elise usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able 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 champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Elise does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Elise into Maokaias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one 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 allied champions during team fights.
Elise is a bad counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Elise to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically gets a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Elise versus Maokai build consist of Night Harvester, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Elise bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 45.9% battling Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Maokai as Elise, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Elise vs Maokai counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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