Kayn vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Kayn
based on 7,196 Kayn vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayn vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Maokai
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Kayn in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Kayn versus Maokai matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Kayn often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayn and Maokai
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Who is Better, Kayn or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayn usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, Kayn makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Kayn does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Kayn also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kayn into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayn has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kayn vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kayn is a garbage counter to Maokai. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayn against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayn 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kayn versus Maokai build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Kayn incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 46.1% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Maokai as Kayn, Kayn players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kayn vs Maokai battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.1% win rate overall.
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