Qiyana vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Qiyana
based on 1,877 Qiyana vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Qiyana vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Qiyana vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Qiyana
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.
Qiyana vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Qiyana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Qiyana versus Maokai counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Qiyana usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Qiyana and Maokai
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Who is Better, Qiyana or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 43.7% win rate. Therefore, Qiyana makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Qiyana does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Qiyana also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Qiyana into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Qiyana has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Qiyana 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Qiyana is a terribly counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Qiyana against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Qiyana 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana often accumulates more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Qiyana versus Maokai build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Qiyana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average winrate of 43.7% when countering Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Maokai as Qiyana, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Qiyana vs Maokai counters, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.7% win rate overall.
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