Shaco vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Shaco
based on 5,661 Shaco vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Maokai Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Maokai
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Shaco versus Maokai counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Shaco often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Maokai
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Who is Better, Shaco or Maokai?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Shaco makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Shaco also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Shaco into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shaco 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.
Shaco is a bad counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shaco against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Shaco versus Maokai build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Maokai as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Shaco vs Maokai clashes, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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