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.
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Maokai versus Renekton counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Renekton’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Renekton. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Maokai typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Renekton. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight Renekton, with a 55.4% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a fantastic counter for Renekton.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate compared to Renekton, when facing one another, Maokai also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Renekton.
Additionally, Maokai also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Renekton. 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 Renekton matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a great counter for Renekton. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Renekton.
To truly master Maokai to counter Renekton during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai typically gets a lot less CS compared to Renekton. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Maokai versus Renekton build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Renekton than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 55.4% battling Renekton with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Renekton as Maokai, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Maokai vs Renekton fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Renekton as Maokai are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.