Orianna vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Orianna
based on 2,126 Orianna vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Maokai
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several important Orianna against Maokai counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Orianna often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Maokai
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Who is Better, Orianna or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 43.7% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Orianna does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Orianna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Orianna into Maokaias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Orianna has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Orianna is a bad counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Orianna against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna most often accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Orianna versus Maokai build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 43.7% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Maokai as Orianna, Orianna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Orianna vs Maokai clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.7% winrate overall.
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