Zoe vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Zoe
based on 1,820 Zoe vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Maokai Counter Build
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Core Zoe Items
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Maokai
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Zoe vs. Maokai counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zoe normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Maokai
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Who is Better, Zoe or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 44.9% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Zoe does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Maokai.
Additionally, Zoe also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often gets more CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zoe versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Zoe included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 44.9% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Zoe, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Zoe vs Maokai LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.9% win rate overall.
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