Kalista vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kalista
based on 1,370 Kalista vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Maokai
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack 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.
Kalista vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Kalista versus Maokai matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Kalista normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kalista or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 43.6% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Kalista does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Kalista also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kalista into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista 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.
Kalista is a terribly counter for Maokai. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista most often gets much more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kalista versus Maokai build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 43.6% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Maokai as Kalista, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Kalista vs Maokai counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.6% winrate overall.
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