Kindred vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kindred
based on 2,930 Kindred vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Maokai
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some important Kindred against Maokai matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kindred typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kindred or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Kindred makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Kindred does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Kindred also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Kindred into Maokai.
Additionally, Kindred 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred 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 allied champions during team fights.
Kindred is a bad counter for Maokai. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kindred 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kindred versus Maokai build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when fighting Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Maokai as Kindred, Kindred players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Kindred vs Maokai fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.4% win rate overall.
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