Jayce vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Jayce
based on 1,952 Jayce vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Maokai
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Jayce in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Jayce versus Maokai counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Jayce usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Maokai
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Who is Better, Jayce or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Jayce usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 44.4% win rate. Thus, Jayce makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Jayce does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Jayce also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Jayce into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Jayce also has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jayce 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 teamfights.
Jayce is a terribly counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Jayce to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce typically racks up much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Jayce versus Maokai build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Jayce bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Jayce boasted an average win rate of 44.4% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Maokai as Jayce, Jayce players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Jayce vs Maokai counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
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