Skarner vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Skarner
based on 494 Skarner vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Maokai
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Skarner in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some critical Skarner against Maokai counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Skarner often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Skarner and Maokai
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Who is Better, Skarner or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 44.7% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Skarner does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Maokai.
Additionally, Skarner also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Skarner vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Skarner is a bad counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Skarner against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Skarner to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Skarner versus Maokai build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average win rate of 44.7% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Maokai as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Skarner vs Maokai counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.7% win rate overall.
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