Maokai vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Maokai
based on 5,761 Maokai vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Maokai vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Maokai versus Sylas matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sylas. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sylas. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Sylas
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Maokai or Sylas?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Sylas, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a good counter for Sylas.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate compared to Sylas, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Maokai into Sylas.
Moreover, Maokai has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Sylas matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Maokai is a decent counter for Sylas. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Sylas 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 tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often picks up less CS compared to Sylas. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai versus Sylas build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Sylas than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Sylas as Maokai, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Maokai vs Sylas matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sylas as Maokai are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.