Lulu vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Lulu
based on 2,291 Lulu vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lulu vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Lulu vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Lulu
Tips for Playing as Lulu against Maokai
Glitterlance can be fired at odd angles depending on where your cursor is - Moving your cursor closer to Pix and Lulu will change your area of effect size considerably.
Consider casting Help, Pix! on ranged attackers for the Pix boost and Wild Growth on Tanks or Fighters for the added initiation power.
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.
Lulu vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Lulu in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Lulu vs. Maokai counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Lulu typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lulu and Maokai
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Who is Better, Lulu or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lulu usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 44.0% win rate. As a result, Lulu makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Lulu does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Lulu also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lulu into Maokai.
Additionally, Lulu also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lulu 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Lulu is a bad counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lulu against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lulu to counter Maokai during both the early game 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 suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lulu usually racks up less CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lulu versus Maokai build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Mikael's Blessing, and Ardent Censer. When Lulu incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Maokai than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Lulu had an average win rate of 44.0% battling Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Lulu, Lulu players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Lulu vs Maokai counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.0% win rate overall.
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