Miss Fortune vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Miss Fortune
based on 19,708 Miss Fortune vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Miss Fortune vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Miss Fortune vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Miss Fortune
Tips for Playing as Miss Fortune against Maokai
Miss Fortune ramps up speed if she hasn't recently taken damage. Avoid getting hit to move very fast.
Use Double Up on the furthest enemy minion if enemy champions are hiding in back; it will bounce to them for lots of damage.
Make sure to utilize Love Tap while Strut is on cooldown to maximize the active's availability.
Advice to Win Against Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Miss Fortune vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Miss Fortune in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Miss Fortune vs. Maokai counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Miss Fortune may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Miss Fortune often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Miss Fortune and Maokai
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Who is Better, Miss Fortune or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Miss Fortune usually wins when facing off against Maokai, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Miss Fortune makes a good counter for Maokai.
While Miss Fortune does have a higher winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Miss Fortune also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Miss Fortune into Maokai.
Moreover, Miss Fortune also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Miss Fortune vs Maokai matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Miss Fortune is a decent counter for Maokai. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Miss Fortune against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Miss Fortune to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Miss Fortune often accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Miss Fortune versus Maokai build include The Collector, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Miss Fortune incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Miss Fortune had an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Maokai as Miss Fortune, Miss Fortune players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Miss Fortune vs Maokai matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Miss Fortune are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.