Vel'Koz vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Vel'Koz
based on 3,279 Vel'Koz vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Maokai
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here feature several valuable Vel'Koz vs. Maokai counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between these two champions. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Maokai
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually racks up more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Maokai build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Vel'Koz, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Maokai fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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