Kai'Sa vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kai'Sa
based on 6,374 Kai'Sa vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Maokai
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some significant Kai'Sa vs. Maokai matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 44.3% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Maokai.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Maokai during both the laning 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 shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average gets much more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Maokai build consist of Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Maokai than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 44.3% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Maokai as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Maokai clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.3% winrate overall.
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