Maokai vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Maokai
based on 5,573 Maokai vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Maokai vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Maokai vs. Rengar counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rengar. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Rengar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Rengar
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Who is Better, Maokai or Rengar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when taking on Rengar, with a 55.3% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a fantastic counter for Rengar.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate compared to Rengar, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Rengar.
Moreover, Maokai has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Rengar 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a great counter to Rengar. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Maokai in order to counter Rengar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rengar. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Maokai versus Rengar build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Rengar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 55.3% when playing against Rengar with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Rengar 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 builds we have analyed for Maokai vs Rengar counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.3% winrate overall.
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