Anivia vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Anivia
based on 2,303 Anivia vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Maokai
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Anivia in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some valuable Anivia against Maokai counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Anivia typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Anivia and Maokai
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Who is Better, Anivia or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Anivia usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Anivia makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Anivia does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Anivia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Anivia into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia also has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Anivia 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.
Anivia is a bad counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Anivia against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Anivia to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia usually racks up much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Anivia versus Maokai build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 47.0% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Maokai as Anivia, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Anivia vs Maokai counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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