Maokai vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Maokai
based on 7,052 Maokai vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Maokai vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Maokai vs. Graves counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Graves. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Graves
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Who is Better, Maokai or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Graves, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a good counter for Graves.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate than Graves, when facing one another, Maokai also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Graves.
Furthermore, Maokai has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Graves matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Maokai is an above average counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Graves. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai versus Graves build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Graves with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Graves as Maokai, Maokai players 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 Graves fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% win rate overall.
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