Rakan vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Rakan
based on 4,702 Rakan vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Maokai
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Rakan versus Maokai matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Rakan normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Maokai
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Who is Better, Rakan or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rakan usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Rakan makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Rakan does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Rakan also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Rakan into Maokai.
Additionally, Rakan has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rakan 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 late stage team fights.
Rakan is a trash counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rakan against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan typically picks up less CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Rakan versus Maokai build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Maokai as Rakan, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Rakan vs Maokai battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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