Udyr vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Udyr
based on 4,857 Udyr vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Udyr vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Udyr vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Udyr
Tips for Playing as Udyr against Maokai
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
Udyr vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Udyr in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Udyr vs. Maokai matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Udyr typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Udyr and Maokai
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Who is Better, Udyr or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Udyr usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Udyr makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Udyr does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Udyr also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Udyr into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 in League of Legends, in Udyr vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Udyr is a terribly counter for Maokai. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Udyr against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Udyr in order 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 stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr on average gets more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Udyr versus Maokai build include Riftmaker, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Udyr had an average win rate of 47.5% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Maokai as Udyr, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Udyr vs Maokai counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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