Zyra vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Zyra
based on 6,864 Zyra vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Maokai
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Zyra versus Maokai counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Maokai..
Zyra typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Maokai. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Maokai
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Who is Better, Zyra or Maokai?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Maokai, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes an ok counter to Maokai.
While Zyra does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Zyra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zyra into Maokaias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zyra is a somewhat poor counter for Maokai. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zyra versus Maokai build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Zyra included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Maokai than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Maokai as Zyra, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zyra vs Maokai matchups, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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