Hwei vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Hwei
based on 7,234 Hwei vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Maokai
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Hwei in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Hwei against Maokai matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Hwei often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they takes less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Maokai
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Who is Better, Hwei or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 44.1% win rate. Thus, Hwei makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Hwei does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Hwei also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Hwei into Maokaias their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Hwei has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei 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.
Hwei is a trash counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hwei against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Hwei in order 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 tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei usually accumulates more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Hwei versus Maokai build include Cryptbloom, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better versus Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 44.1% when countering Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Maokai as Hwei, Hwei players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Hwei vs Maokai face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.1% win rate overall.
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