Warwick vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Warwick
based on 6,492 Warwick vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Maokai Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Maokai
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Warwick in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Warwick vs. Maokai counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Warwick often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Warwick and Maokai
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Who is Better, Warwick or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Warwick makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Warwick does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Warwick also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Warwick into Maokai.
Furthermore, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Warwick is a terribly counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Warwick against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Warwick versus Maokai build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 46.9% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Warwick, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Warwick vs Maokai face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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