Katarina vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Katarina
based on 5,258 Katarina vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Maokai
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several vital Katarina versus Maokai counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Maokai
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Who is Better, Katarina or Maokai?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 44.8% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Katarina does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Maokaias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Katarina 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.
Katarina is a terribly counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Maokai during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up much more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 44.8% battling Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Maokai as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Maokai counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Katarina are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.