Jinx vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Jinx
based on 8,096 Jinx vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jinx vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Jinx vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Jinx
Tips for Playing as Jinx against Maokai
Rockets aren't always the best choice! Jinx's minigun is incredibly powerful when fully ramped up. Switch to it whenever an enemy champion gets too close.
Jinx's rockets deal full damage to all enemies in the explosion. Use them on minions in lane to hit nearby enemy champions without drawing minion aggro.
When a fight starts try to stay on the edge of fray by poking with rockets and Zap!. Do not run in and unload with the minigun until you feel it is safe.
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.
Jinx vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Jinx in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some significant Jinx against Maokai matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Jinx’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jinx may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Jinx often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jinx and Maokai
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Who is Better, Jinx or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jinx usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Jinx makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Jinx does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Jinx also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Jinx into Maokai.
Moreover, Jinx has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jinx vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Jinx is a bad counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jinx against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jinx to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jinx typically gets much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Jinx versus Maokai build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Jinx included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Jinx boasted an average win rate of 47.8% battling Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Maokai as Jinx, Jinx players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Jinx vs Maokai counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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