Sett vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Sett
based on 4,340 Sett vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sett vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Sett vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Sett
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.
Sett vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Sett in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Sett vs. Maokai counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Sett’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sett may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Sett often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sett and Maokai
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Who is Better, Sett or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sett usually fairs equally well when facing off against Maokai, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Sett makes an ok counter to Maokai.
While Sett does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Sett also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Sett into Maokai.
Moreover, Sett has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sett vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Sett is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sett against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sett to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sett on average accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Sett versus Maokai build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Sett combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sett boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Sett, Sett players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Sett vs Maokai LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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