Syndra vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Syndra
based on 3,427 Syndra vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Maokai
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several vital Syndra against Maokai counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Syndra typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Maokai
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Who is Better, Syndra or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Syndra usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 43.6% win rate. Therefore, Syndra makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Syndra does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Syndra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Syndra into Maokaias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Syndra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Syndra 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 allies during team fights.
Syndra is a terribly counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Syndra against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra typically accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Syndra versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Maokai than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Syndra had an average winrate of 43.6% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Syndra, Syndra players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Syndra vs Maokai matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.6% winrate overall.
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