Maokai vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Maokai
based on 2,634 Maokai vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Maokai vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Maokai versus K'Sante counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the pair. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than K'Sante. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Maokai typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Maokai or K'Sante?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight K'Sante, with a 55.7% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a fantastic counter for K'Sante.
While Maokai does have a much higher win rate compared to K'Sante, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into K'Sante.
Additionally, Maokai also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs K'Sante 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 team fights.
Maokai is a great counter for K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Maokai against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai usually accumulates a lot less CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Maokai versus K'Sante build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus K'Sante than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 55.7% battling K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating K'Sante as Maokai, you should use 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 sets players used for Maokai vs K'Sante matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.7% win rate overall.
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