Vi vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Vi
based on 4,410 Vi vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Maokai
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Vi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Vi against Maokai counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vi 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.
Vi normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vi and Maokai
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Who is Better, Vi or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vi usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Vi makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Vi does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Vi also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Vi into Maokai.
Furthermore, Vi also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vi 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Vi is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vi against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vi to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi usually picks up less CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Vi versus Maokai build consist of Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Vi combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Vi, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Vi vs Maokai counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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