K'Sante vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as K'Sante
based on 2,634 K'Sante vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Maokai
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several strategic K'Sante versus Maokai counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
K'Sante often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Maokai
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 44.3% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While K'Sante does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Maokaias their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante 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 allied champions during teamfights.
K'Sante is a garbage counter for Maokai. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante often accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Maokai build include Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 44.3% battling Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Maokai as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for K'Sante vs Maokai matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.3% win rate overall.
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