Mordekaiser vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Mordekaiser
based on 10,832 Mordekaiser vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Mordekaiser vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Mordekaiser vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser against Maokai
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Advice to Win Against Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Mordekaiser vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Mordekaiser in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Mordekaiser vs. Maokai counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Mordekaiser usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Mordekaiser and Maokai
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Who is Better, Mordekaiser or Maokai?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when trying to fight Maokai, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Mordekaiser makes a good counter for Maokai.
While Mordekaiser does have a higher winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Mordekaiser also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Mordekaiser into Maokai.
Moreover, Mordekaiser also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Maokai matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Mordekaiser is a decent counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Mordekaiser against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Mordekaiser in order to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser most often picks up much more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Mordekaiser versus Maokai build include Dead Man's Plate, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Mordekaiser incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Maokai as Mordekaiser, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Mordekaiser vs Maokai battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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