Kassadin vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kassadin
based on 2,153 Kassadin vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Maokai
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several critical Kassadin vs. Maokai matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kassadin 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.
Kassadin usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Kassadin makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Kassadin does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Kassadin also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kassadin 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 allied champions during team fights.
Kassadin is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kassadin 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 should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin on average accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kassadin versus Maokai build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Maokai as Kassadin, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kassadin vs Maokai battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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