Akali vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Akali
based on 8,800 Akali vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Maokai
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some vital Akali versus Maokai counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Maokai
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Who is Better, Akali or Maokai?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Akali does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Akali into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akali is a garbage counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often accumulates much 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 support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akali versus Maokai build include Banshee's Veil, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 45.8% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Maokai as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Akali vs Maokai face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.8% winrate overall.
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