Zeri vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Zeri
based on 1,588 Zeri vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Zeri in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable Zeri against Maokai matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zeri normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Typically, they receives less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zeri and Maokai
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Who is Better, Zeri or Maokai?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 40.6% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Zeri does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when facing one another, Zeri also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Zeri into Maokai.
Additionally, Zeri also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zeri 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 late stage team fights.
Zeri is a trash counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zeri against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zeri to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri most often picks up much more CS compared to Maokai. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zeri versus Maokai build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Zeri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zeri boasted an average win rate of 40.6% when playing against Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Maokai as Zeri, Zeri players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Zeri vs Maokai matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 40.6% winrate overall.
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