Soraka vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Soraka
based on 3,475 Soraka vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Maokai
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Soraka against Maokai counter statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Soraka often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Soraka and Maokai
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Who is Better, Soraka or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Soraka usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 45.6% win rate. As a result, Soraka makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Soraka does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Soraka also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Soraka into Maokai.
Moreover, Soraka also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Soraka is a terribly counter to Maokai. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Soraka in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka most often gets less CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Soraka versus Maokai build consist of Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Maokai as Soraka, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Soraka vs Maokai clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.6% win rate overall.
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