Ezreal vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Ezreal
based on 10,002 Ezreal vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Maokai
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Ezreal in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Ezreal against Maokai matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Ezreal normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ezreal and Maokai
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 43.9% win rate. As a result, Ezreal makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Ezreal does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Ezreal also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ezreal into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ezreal 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ezreal is a bad counter to Maokai. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ezreal against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ezreal in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal often racks up much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Ezreal versus Maokai build include Muramana, Ravenous Hydra, and Trinity Force. When Ezreal bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average win rate of 43.9% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Maokai as Ezreal, Ezreal players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ezreal vs Maokai counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.9% winrate overall.
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