Vex vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Vex
based on 2,902 Vex vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Vex
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.
Vex vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Vex in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Vex vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Vex often has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Maokai
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Who is Better, Vex or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Vex does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Vex into Maokai.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vex vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vex is a garbage counter to Maokai. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vex in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex typically accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vex versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex combined at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when facing Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vex had an average winrate of 46.6% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Maokai as Vex, you should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Vex vs Maokai LoL games, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
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