Xin Zhao vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Xin Zhao
based on 5,105 Xin Zhao vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xin Zhao vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Xin Zhao vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao against Maokai
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
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.
Xin Zhao vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Xin Zhao in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant Xin Zhao vs. Maokai counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Xin Zhao may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Xin Zhao often has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xin Zhao and Maokai
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Who is Better, Xin Zhao or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xin Zhao usually fairs equally well when taking on Maokai, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Xin Zhao makes an ok counter for Maokai.
While Xin Zhao does have a higher winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Xin Zhao also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Xin Zhao into Maokai.
Additionally, Xin Zhao has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Xin Zhao vs Maokai matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Xin Zhao is a decent counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Xin Zhao against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xin Zhao to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xin Zhao on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Xin Zhao versus Maokai build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Titanic Hydra. When Xin Zhao incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xin Zhao boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Xin Zhao, Xin Zhao players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Xin Zhao vs Maokai counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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