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 stat comparisons shown on this page feature some strategic Yuumi versus Maokai counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Yuumi typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 42.3% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Yuumi does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Yuumi into Maokai.
Furthermore, Yuumi has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yuumi is a bad counter to Maokai. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yuumi against Maokai.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi most often gets a lot less CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Yuumi versus Maokai build include Redemption, Mikael's Blessing, and Dream Maker. When Yuumi combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yuumi had an average win rate of 42.3% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Maokai as Yuumi, Yuumi players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Yuumi vs Maokai clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.3% win rate overall.
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