Thresh vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Thresh
based on 6,279 Thresh vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Maokai
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Thresh vs. Maokai matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Thresh typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Maokai
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Who is Better, Thresh or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh 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 team fights.
Thresh is a trash counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Thresh versus Maokai build include Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Maokai as Thresh, Thresh players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Thresh vs Maokai counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Thresh are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.