Maokai vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Maokai
based on 1,367 Maokai vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Maokai vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Maokai versus Ryze counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Maokai normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Ryze
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Who is Better, Maokai or Ryze?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight Ryze, with a 54.4% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a great counter to Ryze.
While Maokai does have a much higher win rate than Ryze, when facing one another, Maokai also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Ryze.
Furthermore, Maokai also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Ryze 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a great counter to Ryze. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Maokai versus Ryze build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Ryze than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 54.4% when playing against Ryze with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Ryze as Maokai, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Maokai vs Ryze face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.4% winrate overall.
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