Maokai vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Maokai
based on 15,228 Maokai vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Maokai vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Maokai against Lux counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lux..
Maokai often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Lux. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Lux
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Who is Better, Maokai or Lux?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Lux, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a good counter for Lux.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate compared to Lux, when facing one another, Maokai also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Lux.
Furthermore, Maokai has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Lux 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Maokai is an above average counter to Lux. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter Lux 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 mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai typically gets less CS as Lux. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Maokai versus Lux build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Lux than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 52.5% battling Lux with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Lux as Maokai, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Maokai vs Lux LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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