Xerath vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Xerath
based on 5,942 Xerath vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Maokai
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Xerath in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Xerath against Maokai matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai..
Xerath normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xerath and Maokai
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Who is Better, Xerath or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Xerath makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Xerath does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Xerath into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Xerath is a garbage counter for Maokai. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xerath 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath usually picks up more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Xerath versus Maokai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when countering Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Maokai as Xerath, Xerath players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Xerath vs Maokai counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Xerath are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.