Vayne vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Vayne
based on 9,008 Vayne vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Maokai
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Vayne in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Vayne versus Maokai counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Vayne often has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Maokai
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Who is Better, Vayne or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vayne usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Vayne makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Vayne does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Vayne also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Vayne into Maokaias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vayne is a trash counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vayne 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne usually accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vayne versus Maokai build consist of Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Vayne incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Maokai as Vayne, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vayne vs Maokai counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Vayne are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.