Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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.
The stats provided here underscore some vital Urgot versus Maokai matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between these two champions. Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Urgot typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Urgot usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Urgot makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Urgot does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Urgot also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Urgot into Maokaias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Urgot has only a small 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Urgot is a bad counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Urgot against Maokai.
To truly master Urgot in order to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot most often gets much more CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Urgot versus Maokai build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Chempunk Chainsword. When Urgot bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Urgot had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Urgot, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Urgot vs Maokai face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Urgot are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.