Irelia vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Irelia
based on 4,077 Irelia vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Maokai
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some important Irelia against Maokai counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Irelia usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Maokai
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Who is Better, Irelia or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Maokai.
Additionally, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Irelia to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often racks up much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Irelia versus Maokai build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Irelia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 48.3% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Irelia vs Maokai matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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