Nocturne vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Nocturne
based on 8,272 Nocturne vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Maokai
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Nocturne versus Maokai counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Maokai
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually fairs equally well when taking on Maokai, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes an ok counter for Maokai.
While Nocturne does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Nocturne also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Maokai.
Additionally, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nocturne is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nocturne versus Maokai build include Black Cleaver, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Maokai as Nocturne, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nocturne vs Maokai clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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