Maokai vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Maokai
based on 1,090 Maokai vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Maokai vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Maokai versus Elise matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Elise
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Who is Better, Maokai or Elise?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight Elise, with a 56.0% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a fantastic counter for Elise.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Maokai also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Elise.
Moreover, Maokai has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Elise matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a great counter to Elise. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Maokai to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often picks up more CS compared to Elise. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Maokai versus Elise build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Elise than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 56.0% battling Elise with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Elise as Maokai, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Maokai vs Elise counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 56.0% win rate overall.
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