Akshan vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Akshan
based on 2,858 Akshan vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Maokai
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some important Akshan versus Maokai counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Akshan usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Akshan also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Maokai.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Akshan is a trash counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Akshan versus Maokai build consist of Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better vs. Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.0% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Maokai as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Akshan vs Maokai fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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