LeBlanc vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as LeBlanc
based on 2,414 LeBlanc vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
LeBlanc vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best LeBlanc vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as LeBlanc against Maokai
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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.
LeBlanc vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with LeBlanc in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic LeBlanc against Maokai matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
LeBlanc normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between LeBlanc and Maokai
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Who is Better, LeBlanc or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 42.2% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking LeBlanc into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, LeBlanc has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in LeBlanc 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 team members during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a bad counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as LeBlanc against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc most often racks up more CS compared to Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your LeBlanc versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Maokai than with many other common counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc had an average winrate of 42.2% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as LeBlanc, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for LeBlanc vs Maokai matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.2% winrate overall.
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