Rek'Sai vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Rek'Sai
based on 795 Rek'Sai vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Maokai
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Rek'Sai against Maokai counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Rek'Sai normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Maokai
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Rek'Sai does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rek'Sai into Maokai.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Rek'Sai is a bad counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rek'Sai against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rek'Sai to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai most often racks up less CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Rek'Sai versus Maokai build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Maokai as Rek'Sai, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Rek'Sai vs Maokai clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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