Maokai vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Maokai
based on 4,680 Maokai vs Vladimir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vladimir as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Vladimir
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 Vladimir
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Maokai vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Maokai against Vladimir matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between this set of champions. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vladimir. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Vladimir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Vladimir
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Who is Better, Maokai or Vladimir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually fairs equally well when facing off against Vladimir, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes an ok counter to Vladimir.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate compared to Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Maokai into Vladimir.
Furthermore, Maokai has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Vladimir matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a decent counter for Vladimir. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Vladimir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Maokai to counter Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai on average racks up a lot less CS as Vladimir. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Maokai versus Vladimir build consist of Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Vladimir than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 50.4% battling Vladimir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Vladimir as Maokai, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Maokai vs Vladimir matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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