Veigar vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Veigar
based on 5,328 Veigar vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Maokai
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable Veigar versus Maokai matchup statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Veigar usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Maokai
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Who is Better, Veigar or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Veigar usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Veigar does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Veigar into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar also 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 trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar 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.
Veigar is a garbage counter to Maokai. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar usually picks up much more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Veigar versus Maokai build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Maokai than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 46.2% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Maokai as Veigar, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Veigar vs Maokai battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.2% winrate overall.
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