Maokai vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Maokai
based on 1,751 Maokai vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Maokai vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Maokai against Taliyah matchup stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taliyah..
Maokai normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Maokai or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when taking on Taliyah, with a 56.3% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a fantastic counter to Taliyah.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate compared to Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Maokai has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Taliyah matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Maokai is a great counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai on average racks up less CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Maokai versus Taliyah build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Taliyah than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 56.3% battling Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Taliyah as Maokai, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Maokai vs Taliyah matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.3% win rate overall.
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