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.
After being marked, move away from Quinn so she can't take advantage of it.
Keep tabs on Quinn's position. Behind Enemy Lines can enable Valor to cross the map very quickly and attack you by surprise.
When Quinn is using Behind Enemy Lines, damaging her removes her Move Speed bonus temporarily.
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Maokai against Quinn matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Quinn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Quinn. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Quinn. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when playing against Quinn, with a 54.9% win rate. Therefore, Maokai makes a great counter for Quinn.
While Maokai does have a much higher win rate than Quinn, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Quinn.
Furthermore, Maokai has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Quinn. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Quinn 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 teammates during team fights.
Maokai is a great counter for Quinn. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Maokai against Quinn.
If you would like to truly master Maokai to counter Quinn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often accumulates a lot less CS as Quinn. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Maokai versus Quinn build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Quinn than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 54.9% when playing against Quinn with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Quinn as Maokai, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Maokai vs Quinn counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.9% winrate overall.
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