Nasus vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Nasus
based on 4,581 Nasus vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Maokai
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some vital Nasus versus Maokai matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Nasus typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Maokai
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Who is Better, Nasus or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nasus into Maokai.
Moreover, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nasus is a garbage counter for Maokai. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nasus versus Maokai build include Spirit Visage, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Maokai than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Maokai as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nasus vs Maokai LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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