Shyvana vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Shyvana
based on 2,082 Shyvana vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Maokai
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Shyvana in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Shyvana versus Maokai counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Shyvana normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Maokai
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Shyvana does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shyvana into Maokai.
Moreover, Shyvana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana 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 allied champions during team fights.
Shyvana is a terribly counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to counter Maokai during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shyvana versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Maokai than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Maokai as Shyvana, Shyvana players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Shyvana vs Maokai battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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