Vladimir vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Vladimir
based on 4,680 Vladimir vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Maokai
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Vladimir in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some vital Vladimir versus Maokai matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Vladimir normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vladimir and Maokai
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vladimir usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Maokai, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes an ok counter for Maokai.
While Vladimir does have a lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vladimir 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, Vladimir also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vladimir is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vladimir against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir typically accumulates much 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 supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Vladimir versus Maokai build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Maokai as Vladimir, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Vladimir vs Maokai counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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