Nidalee vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Nidalee
based on 3,050 Nidalee vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Maokai
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Advice to Win Against Maokai
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.
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.
Nidalee vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Nidalee versus Maokai matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between this set of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Maokai
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 43.4% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee 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 team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nidalee versus Maokai build include Night Harvester, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 43.4% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Nidalee vs Maokai clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 43.4% win rate overall.
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