Gnar vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Gnar
based on 1,555 Gnar vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Maokai Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Maokai
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several significant Gnar against Maokai counter statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Gnar often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Maokai
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Who is Better, Gnar or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Gnar does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a bad counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often gets much more CS compared to Maokai. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Maokai build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 44.6% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Maokai as Gnar, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Gnar vs Maokai counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.6% winrate overall.
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