Viego vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Viego
based on 6,274 Viego vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viego vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Viego vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Viego
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.
Viego vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Viego in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Viego vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Viego’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viego may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Viego usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they receives more damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viego and Maokai
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Who is Better, Viego or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Viego usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Viego makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Viego does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Viego also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Viego into Maokai.
Moreover, Viego 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viego 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Viego is a terribly counter for Maokai. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Viego against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viego to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viego typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Viego versus Maokai build include Blade of The Ruined King, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Viego bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Maokai than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Viego had an average win rate of 47.6% battling Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Maokai as Viego, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Viego vs Maokai battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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