Shen vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Shen
based on 2,807 Shen vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Maokai
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Shen in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Shen versus Maokai counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Shen normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shen and Maokai
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Who is Better, Shen or Maokai?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shen usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Shen makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Shen does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Shen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Shen into Maokai.
Furthermore, Shen has a very large 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 Shen vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shen is a trash counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shen against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shen to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen usually accumulates more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average 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 properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Shen versus Maokai build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Maokai than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Maokai as Shen, Shen players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shen vs Maokai counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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