Nami vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Nami
based on 4,458 Nami vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Maokai
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Nami against Maokai matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Nami usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Maokai
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Who is Better, Nami or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Nami does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Nami also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nami into Maokai.
Additionally, Nami also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nami is a garbage counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nami to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami typically gets less CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nami versus Maokai build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 46.0% when countering Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Nami, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Nami vs Maokai matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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