Fiddlesticks vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Fiddlesticks
based on 2,590 Fiddlesticks vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Fiddlesticks vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some significant Fiddlesticks versus Maokai matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Fiddlesticks usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Maokai
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Fiddlesticks into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Fiddlesticks has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks 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 teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a bad counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Fiddlesticks against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Fiddlesticks versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Maokai as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Fiddlesticks vs Maokai clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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