Volibear vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Volibear
based on 3,245 Volibear vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Volibear in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Volibear vs. Maokai counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Volibear often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Volibear and Maokai
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Who is Better, Volibear or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Volibear usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.7% win rate. Therefore, Volibear makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Volibear does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Volibear also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Volibear into Maokai.
Furthermore, Volibear has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Volibear is a terribly counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Volibear against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Volibear to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear most often gets more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Volibear versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 46.7% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Maokai as Volibear, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Volibear vs Maokai counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.7% win rate overall.
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