Trundle vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Trundle
based on 9,732 Trundle vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Maokai
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Trundle in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Trundle against Maokai matchup statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Trundle normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Trundle and Maokai
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Who is Better, Trundle or Maokai?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Trundle usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Maokai, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Trundle makes an ok counter for Maokai.
While Trundle does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Trundle into Maokai.
Furthermore, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Trundle is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Trundle against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Trundle to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle most often racks up much more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Trundle versus Maokai build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Trundle had an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Maokai as Trundle, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Trundle vs Maokai face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Trundle are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.