Nunu & Willump vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Nunu & Willump
based on 3,515 Nunu & Willump vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Maokai
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several vital Nunu & Willump versus Maokai counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Maokai
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Maokai?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 45.6% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Nunu & Willump does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nunu & Willump into Maokai.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a garbage counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump 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 tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often accumulates less CS compared to Maokai. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Maokai build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 45.6% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Maokai as Nunu & Willump, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Maokai counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
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