Samira vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Samira
based on 6,791 Samira vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Samira
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.
Samira vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Samira in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several significant Samira against Maokai counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Samira normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Samira and Maokai
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Who is Better, Samira or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Samira does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Samira into Maokai.
Additionally, Samira 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Samira is a terribly counter for Maokai. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira typically accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Samira versus Maokai build include Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Samira had an average win rate of 46.7% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Samira, Samira players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Samira vs Maokai face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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