Zed vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Zed
based on 5,382 Zed vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Maokai Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Maokai
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several vital Zed against Maokai matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Maokai
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Who is Better, Zed or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Zed does have a much lower winrate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Maokaias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed 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 team members during team fights.
Zed is a bad counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often picks up much more CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zed versus Maokai build include Edge of Night, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 44.6% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Maokai as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Maokai counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.6% winrate overall.
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