Nidalee vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Nidalee
based on 1,043 Nidalee vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Maokai
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some strategic Nidalee vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Maokai
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 40.9% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Maokaias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Maokai. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 40.9% when countering Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Nidalee, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Maokai clashes, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 40.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Nidalee are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.