Maokai vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Maokai
based on 2,143 Maokai vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Maokai vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Maokai against Sivir counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sivir. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Maokai normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Sivir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Sivir
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Who is Better, Maokai or Sivir?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when taking on Sivir, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Maokai makes a good counter for Sivir.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate compared to Sivir, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Sivir.
Additionally, Maokai has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Sivir 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 team members during team fights.
Maokai is an above average counter to Sivir. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Sivir during both the early game 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Sivir. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Maokai versus Sivir build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Sivir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 52.9% battling Sivir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Sivir as Maokai, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Maokai vs Sivir face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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