Swain vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Swain
based on 5,963 Swain vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against Maokai
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
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.
Swain vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Swain in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Swain versus Maokai counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Swain typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Swain and Maokai
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Who is Better, Swain or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Swain usually wins when facing off against Maokai, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Swain makes a good counter to Maokai.
While Swain does have a higher win rate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Swain also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Swain into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Swain also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Swain vs Maokai matchups, Swain is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Swain is an above average counter to Maokai. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Maokai during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain on average picks up more CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Swain versus Maokai build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 52.4% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Maokai as Swain, Swain players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Swain vs Maokai battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Swain are shown for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.