Karthus vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Karthus
based on 1,982 Karthus vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Maokai
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
Karthus vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Karthus in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several critical Karthus versus Maokai matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Karthus normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karthus and Maokai
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Who is Better, Karthus or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Karthus does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Karthus also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karthus into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Karthus also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karthus vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Karthus is a terribly counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus typically gets more CS compared to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Karthus versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Karthus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Karthus, Karthus players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Karthus vs Maokai clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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