Rammus vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Rammus
based on 2,663 Rammus vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Maokai
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Rammus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several critical Rammus against Maokai matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this pair of champs. Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Rammus often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Maokai
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Who is Better, Rammus or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Rammus does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Rammus also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rammus into Maokai.
Furthermore, Rammus has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Rammus 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Rammus is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rammus in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rammus versus Maokai build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Maokai as Rammus, Rammus players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Rammus vs Maokai matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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