Lillia vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Lillia
based on 9,976 Lillia vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lillia vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Lillia vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Lillia
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.
Lillia vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Lillia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several vital Lillia vs. Maokai matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Lillia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lillia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Lillia normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lillia and Maokai
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Who is Better, Lillia or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lillia usually wins when playing against Maokai, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Lillia makes a good counter for Maokai.
While Lillia does have a higher win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Lillia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lillia into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Lillia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lillia vs Maokai matchups, Lillia is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lillia is a decent counter for Maokai. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lillia against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lillia to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lillia most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Lillia versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Lillia combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Maokai than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lillia had an average winrate of 51.9% battling Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Maokai as Lillia, Lillia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lillia vs Maokai counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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