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.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several strategic Maokai vs. Yuumi counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yuumi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yuumi..
Maokai often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Yuumi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when trying to fight Yuumi, with a 57.7% win rate. As a result, Maokai makes a fantastic counter to Yuumi.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate compared to Yuumi, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Yuumi.
Moreover, Maokai also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yuumi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Yuumi matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Maokai is a great counter for Yuumi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Yuumi.
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Yuumi during both the early game 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 suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai typically picks up much more CS relative to Yuumi. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Maokai versus Yuumi build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Yuumi than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 57.7% battling Yuumi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Yuumi as Maokai, you should use 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 combinations we have analyed for Maokai vs Yuumi battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 57.7% win rate overall.
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