Lissandra vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Lissandra
based on 2,015 Lissandra vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Maokai
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Lissandra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several strategic Lissandra versus Maokai counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Lissandra often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Maokai
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Maokai?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Lissandra makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Lissandra does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Lissandra also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lissandra into Maokai.
Moreover, Lissandra also has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Lissandra is a terribly counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lissandra against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra usually accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Lissandra versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 47.4% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Maokai as Lissandra, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Lissandra vs Maokai LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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