Kha'Zix vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kha'Zix
based on 4,338 Kha'Zix vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kha'Zix vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kha'Zix vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix against Maokai
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kha'Zix in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several valuable Kha'Zix against Maokai counter stats that may help you understand the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kha'Zix may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Kha'Zix often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kha'Zix and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kha'Zix or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kha'Zix usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, Kha'Zix makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Kha'Zix does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Kha'Zix also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kha'Zix into Maokai.
Moreover, Kha'Zix also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kha'Zix 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Kha'Zix is a trash counter to Maokai. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kha'Zix against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kha'Zix 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kha'Zix on average racks up less CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kha'Zix versus Maokai build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Kha'Zix included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kha'Zix had an average win rate of 45.2% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Maokai as Kha'Zix, Kha'Zix players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Kha'Zix vs Maokai counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.2% winrate overall.
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