Talon vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Talon
based on 3,252 Talon vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Maokai
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Talon in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Talon versus Maokai matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Talon usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Maokai
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Who is Better, Talon or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Talon usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Talon makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Talon does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Talon into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Talon also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Talon is a garbage counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Talon against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon on average racks up more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire 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 skills, stats, 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 exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Talon versus Maokai build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Talon bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Maokai than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 46.3% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Maokai as Talon, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Talon vs Maokai LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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