Maokai vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Maokai
based on 2,324 Maokai vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Maokai vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Maokai versus Jarvan IV matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jarvan IV..
Maokai usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Jarvan IV. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Maokai or Jarvan IV?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Jarvan IV, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a good counter to Jarvan IV.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate than Jarvan IV, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Maokai into Jarvan IV.
Moreover, Maokai has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Jarvan IV matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a 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 decent counter for Jarvan IV. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Jarvan IV.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter Jarvan IV during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Jarvan IV. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Maokai versus Jarvan IV build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Jarvan IV than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 51.4% battling Jarvan IV with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Jarvan IV as Maokai, Maokai players should take 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 Jarvan IV matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Jarvan IV as Maokai are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.