Lux vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Lux
based on 15,228 Lux vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Maokai
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Lux in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Lux vs. Maokai counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Lux usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Maokai
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Who is Better, Lux or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lux usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Lux does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Lux into Maokai.
Moreover, Lux also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Lux is a garbage counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux often gets more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't get 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, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Lux versus Maokai build include Malignance, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Lux combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Maokai as Lux, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Lux vs Maokai battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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