Graves vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Graves
based on 7,052 Graves vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Maokai
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Graves in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Graves vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Graves usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Maokai
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Who is Better, Graves or Maokai?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Graves does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Graves into Maokai.
Moreover, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Graves is a garbage counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Graves versus Maokai build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Maokai as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Graves vs Maokai matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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