Maokai vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Maokai
based on 2,237 Maokai vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Heimerdinger
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Advice to Win Against Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Maokai vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Maokai against Heimerdinger matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Maokai or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a good counter for Heimerdinger.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Maokai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Heimerdinger.
Additionally, Maokai also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Heimerdinger matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Maokai is an above average counter to Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai usually racks up less CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Maokai versus Heimerdinger build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Heimerdinger than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 52.7% battling Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Heimerdinger as Maokai, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Maokai vs Heimerdinger face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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