Illaoi vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Illaoi
based on 2,961 Illaoi vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Maokai Counter Build
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Core Illaoi Items
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Maokai
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Illaoi versus Maokai matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between the two. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Illaoi usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Maokai
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when facing off against Maokai, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Maokai.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Maokai.
Furthermore, Illaoi has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi most often picks up much more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Illaoi versus Maokai build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Maokai as Illaoi, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Illaoi vs Maokai matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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