Malzahar vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Malzahar
based on 4,946 Malzahar vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Maokai
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Malzahar against Maokai counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Malzahar usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Maokai
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Malzahar does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Malzahar into Maokai.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar 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 teammates during team fights.
Malzahar is a garbage counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Malzahar against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically racks up much more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Malzahar versus Maokai build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Maokai than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Malzahar, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Malzahar vs Maokai fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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