Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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 provided here show several critical Renekton against Maokai counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Renekton normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Renekton usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Renekton makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Renekton does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Renekton also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Renekton into Maokai.
Moreover, Renekton has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Renekton 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 allies during teamfights.
Renekton is a terribly counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Renekton against Maokai.
If you would like to truly master Renekton in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton usually accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Renekton versus Maokai build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Renekton had an average win rate of 44.6% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Maokai as Renekton, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Renekton vs Maokai counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.6% winrate overall.
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