Ivern vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Ivern
based on 1,731 Ivern vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Maokai
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
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.
Ivern vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Ivern in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Ivern versus Maokai counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Ivern often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Maokai
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Who is Better, Ivern or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ivern usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Ivern does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ivern into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern 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 allied champions during team fights.
Ivern is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ivern 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern often racks up less CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ivern versus Maokai build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Ivern included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ivern had an average win rate of 48.6% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Ivern, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cosmic Insight, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Ivern vs Maokai face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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