Maokai vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Maokai
based on 4,578 Maokai vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Maokai vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some important Maokai vs. Lee Sin matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Maokai or Lee Sin?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Lee Sin, with a 55.0% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when facing one another, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Maokai also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Lee Sin 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a great counter for Lee Sin. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Lee Sin. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Maokai versus Lee Sin build include Trailblazer, Sunfire Aegis, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Lee Sin than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 55.0% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Lee Sin as Maokai, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Maokai vs Lee Sin LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.0% winrate overall.
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