Ryze vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Ryze
based on 1,367 Ryze vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Maokai
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Ryze in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Ryze against Maokai matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Ryze often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Maokai
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Who is Better, Ryze or Maokai?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Ryze does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Ryze into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ryze has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ryze 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Ryze is a trash counter to Maokai. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ryze against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ryze 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze most often gets much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ryze versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Luden's Companion, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ryze boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Maokai as Ryze, Ryze players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Ryze vs Maokai counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.6% winrate overall.
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