Singed vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Singed
based on 3,695 Singed vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Singed vs Maokai Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Singed
Tips for Playing as Singed against Maokai
Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
Singed vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Singed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some vital Singed against Maokai matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai..
Singed typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Singed and Maokai
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Who is Better, Singed or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Singed usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Maokai, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Singed makes an ok counter for Maokai.
While Singed does have a higher winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Singed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Singed into Maokai.
Additionally, Singed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Maokai matchups, Singed is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Singed is a decent counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Singed against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Singed 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed most often accumulates much more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Singed versus Maokai build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Dead Man's Plate, and Riftmaker. When Singed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Singed had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing against Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Maokai as Singed, Singed players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Singed vs Maokai counters, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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