Maokai vs Fizz
How to Beat Fizz as Maokai
based on 7,570 Maokai vs Fizz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Fizz Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Fizz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fizz as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Fizz
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 Fizz
Fizz's attacks becomes more deadly for a few seconds after he uses his empowered attack - keep him away while his trident is glowing!
Fizz is a slippery target when his abilities are not on cooldown - bait him into using them early and follow up with crowd control or hard-hitting attacks!
Maokai vs Fizz Counter Stats
How to Counter Fizz with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Maokai vs. Fizz counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fizz’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fizz. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Fizz. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Fizz
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Who is Better, Maokai or Fizz?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually fairs equally well when taking on Fizz, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes an ok counter for Fizz.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate than Fizz, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Maokai into Fizz.
Additionally, Maokai has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fizz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Fizz matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a decent counter for Fizz. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Fizz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter Fizz during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Fizz. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, usually require several high cost 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 use in your Maokai versus Fizz build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Fizz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Fizz with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Fizz as Maokai, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Maokai vs Fizz clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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