Rengar vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Rengar
based on 5,573 Rengar vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Maokai
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Rengar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Rengar against Maokai matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Rengar often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Maokai
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Who is Better, Rengar or Maokai?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rengar usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 44.7% win rate. Therefore, Rengar makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Rengar does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Rengar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rengar into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Rengar has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rengar is a bad counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rengar in order to counter Maokai during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Rengar versus Maokai build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Rengar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rengar boasted an average win rate of 44.7% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Maokai as Rengar, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Rengar vs Maokai fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.7% win rate overall.
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