Maokai vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Maokai
based on 1,043 Maokai vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Nidalee
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 Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Maokai vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown here feature several strategic Maokai vs. Nidalee matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nidalee. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Maokai or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 59.1% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Maokai does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Maokai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Nidalee.
Additionally, Maokai has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Nidalee 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 teamfights.
Maokai is a great counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Maokai to counter Nidalee during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Maokai versus Nidalee build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 59.1% when countering Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nidalee as Maokai, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Maokai vs Nidalee fights, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 59.1% winrate overall.
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