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.
Catching Milio with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Milio.
Milio's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
The stats shown on this page highlight some important Maokai against Milio counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Milio’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Milio..
Maokai usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Milio. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Milio, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a good counter for Milio.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate than Milio, when on opposite teams, Maokai also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Milio.
Additionally, Maokai also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Milio. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Milio matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Maokai is an above average counter to Milio. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Milio.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Milio during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai often gets more CS compared to Milio. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Maokai versus Milio build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Milio than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Milio with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Milio as Maokai, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Maokai vs Milio clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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