Tristana vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Tristana
based on 5,244 Tristana vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Maokai
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several important Tristana vs. Maokai counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Tristana typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Maokai
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Who is Better, Tristana or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Tristana into Maokai.
Additionally, Tristana has only a small 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana 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 teamfights.
Tristana is a terribly counter for Maokai. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average racks up much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Tristana versus Maokai build include Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when playing against Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Maokai as Tristana, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Tristana vs Maokai battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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