Garen vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Garen
based on 5,440 Garen vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Maokai Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Maokai
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Garen in LoL
The stats shown here feature several critical Garen vs. Maokai matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Garen often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Maokai
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Who is Better, Garen or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Garen usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Garen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Garen into Maokai.
Additionally, Garen also 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen 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 late stage team fights.
Garen is a garbage counter for Maokai. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average picks up much more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Garen versus Maokai build consist of Phantom Dancer, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Maokai as Garen, Garen players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Garen vs Maokai fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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