Yone vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Yone
based on 9,482 Yone vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Yone vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Yone
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.
Yone vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Yone in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Yone vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champs. Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Yone typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yone and Maokai
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Who is Better, Yone or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yone usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Yone makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Yone does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Yone also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yone into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yone vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Yone is a bad counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yone against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yone in order 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 displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone most often accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Yone versus Maokai build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Yone had an average win rate of 45.9% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Maokai as Yone, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Yone vs Maokai counters, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% winrate overall.
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