Nilah vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Nilah
based on 2,461 Nilah vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Nilah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Nilah vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Nilah normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. On average, they receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nilah and Maokai
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Who is Better, Nilah or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when facing off against Maokai, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a good counter for Maokai.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nilah into Maokaias their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nilah has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. 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 Nilah vs Maokai matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nilah is a decent counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nilah in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah usually racks up much more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nilah versus Maokai build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better countering Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nilah had an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Maokai as Nilah, Nilah players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nilah vs Maokai counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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