Maokai vs Ezreal
How to Beat Ezreal as Maokai
based on 10,002 Maokai vs Ezreal matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Ezreal Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Ezreal Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ezreal as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Ezreal
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 Ezreal
Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects including the Crest of Cinders.
Maokai vs Ezreal Counter Stats
How to Counter Ezreal with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Maokai versus Ezreal counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ezreal’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ezreal. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ezreal. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Ezreal
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Who is Better, Maokai or Ezreal?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight Ezreal, with a 56.1% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a fantastic counter to Ezreal.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate than Ezreal, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Ezreal.
Moreover, Maokai also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ezreal. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Ezreal 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 allied champions during team fights.
Maokai is a great counter for Ezreal. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Ezreal.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Maokai to counter Ezreal during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Ezreal. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Maokai versus Ezreal build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Abyssal Mask. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Ezreal than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 56.1% when countering Ezreal with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ezreal as Maokai, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Maokai vs Ezreal LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 56.1% winrate overall.
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