Hecarim vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Hecarim
based on 3,849 Hecarim vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Maokai
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Hecarim versus Maokai matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Hecarim normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hecarim and Maokai
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Hecarim makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Hecarim does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hecarim into Maokai.
Moreover, Hecarim has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Hecarim 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Hecarim is a terribly counter for Maokai. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Hecarim versus Maokai build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Hecarim bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Hecarim, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Hecarim vs Maokai counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.6% win rate overall.
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