Morgana vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Morgana
based on 8,028 Morgana vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Maokai
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
Morgana vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Morgana in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Morgana against Maokai matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Morgana typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Morgana and Maokai
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Who is Better, Morgana or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Morgana usually fairs equally well when playing against Maokai, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Morgana makes an ok counter for Maokai.
While Morgana does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Morgana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Maokai.
Moreover, Morgana has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Morgana is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Morgana against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Morgana in order to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Morgana versus Maokai build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Maokai than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Morgana boasted an average win rate of 49.8% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Morgana, Morgana players should use the Glacial Augment, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Morgana vs Maokai clashes, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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