Kayle vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kayle
based on 4,382 Kayle vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Maokai
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some vital Kayle versus Maokai counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Kayle typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kayle or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Kayle does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Kayle also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Maokaias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle 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 Kayle 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average gets much more CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Kayle versus Maokai build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Kayle included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Maokai than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average win rate of 48.2% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Maokai as Kayle, Kayle players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Kayle vs Maokai fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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