Taliyah vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Taliyah
based on 1,751 Taliyah vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Maokai
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Taliyah in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Taliyah versus Maokai matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Taliyah usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Maokai
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 43.7% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Taliyah does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Taliyah into Maokai.
Moreover, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah 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 team members during teamfights.
Taliyah is a terribly counter to Maokai. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually picks up more CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 43.7% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Maokai as Taliyah, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Maokai counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.7% win rate overall.
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