Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Ornn vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ornn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ornn may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Ornn often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ornn usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Ornn makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Ornn does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Ornn also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ornn into Maokai.
Furthermore, Ornn also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ornn vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ornn is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ornn against Maokai.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ornn in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ornn typically racks up much more CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Ornn versus Maokai build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Ornn incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ornn had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Maokai as Ornn, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Ornn vs Maokai counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Ornn are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.