Ziggs vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Ziggs
based on 2,112 Ziggs vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Maokai
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Ziggs versus Maokai counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai..
Ziggs normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Maokai
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes a poor counter to Maokai.
While Ziggs does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Maokai.
Furthermore, Ziggs also 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a bad counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ziggs against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically gets much more CS as Maokai. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Ziggs versus Maokai build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ziggs combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 45.3% battling Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Maokai as Ziggs, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ziggs vs Maokai LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.3% win rate overall.
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