Maokai vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Maokai
based on 2,112 Maokai vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Maokai vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several valuable Maokai against Ziggs counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ziggs. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Maokai or Ziggs?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 54.7% win rate. Therefore, Maokai makes a great counter for Ziggs.
While Maokai does have a much higher win rate than Ziggs, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Ziggs.
Additionally, Maokai has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Ziggs 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 allies during teamfights.
Maokai is a great counter to Ziggs. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Maokai to counter Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai on average gets a lot less CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai versus Ziggs build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Ziggs than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 54.7% battling Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Ziggs as Maokai, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Maokai vs Ziggs counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.7% win rate overall.
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