Maokai vs Singed
How to Beat Singed as Maokai
based on 3,695 Maokai vs Singed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Singed Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Singed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Singed as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Singed
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 Singed
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
Maokai vs Singed Counter Stats
How to Counter Singed with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Maokai vs. Singed matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Singed’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Singed. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Singed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Singed
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Who is Better, Maokai or Singed?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually fairs equally well when facing off against Singed, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes an ok counter for Singed.
While Maokai does have a lower winrate compared to Singed, when facing one another, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Maokai into Singed.
Additionally, Maokai has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Maokai is a somewhat poor counter to Singed. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Singed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Singed. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Maokai versus Singed build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Singed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Singed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Singed as Maokai, Maokai players 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 builds players picked for Maokai vs Singed face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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