Maokai vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Maokai
based on 3,624 Maokai vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Maokai vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Maokai against Aphelios counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Maokai or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Maokai has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Aphelios 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 to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to counter Aphelios 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 tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Maokai versus Aphelios build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.2% battling Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Aphelios as Maokai, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Maokai vs Aphelios counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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