Janna vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Janna
based on 4,151 Janna vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Maokai
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Janna versus Maokai counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Janna normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Maokai
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Who is Better, Janna or Maokai?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Janna does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Janna into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna 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 team fights.
Janna is a terribly counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often accumulates less CS relative to Maokai. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Janna versus Maokai build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 46.8% when playing against Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Maokai as Janna, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Maokai face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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