Maokai vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Maokai
based on 2,303 Maokai vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Anivia
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Advice to Win Against Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Maokai vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some important Maokai against Anivia counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Anivia. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Anivia
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Who is Better, Maokai or Anivia?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight Anivia, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a good counter for Anivia.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate compared to Anivia, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Anivia.
Furthermore, Maokai has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Anivia matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Maokai is an above average counter for Anivia. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Maokai in order to counter Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often gets a lot less CS as Anivia. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai versus Anivia build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Anivia than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when countering Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Anivia as Maokai, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Maokai vs Anivia clashes, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% win rate overall.
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