La compétence passive de Maokai le rend extrêmement endurant contre les barrages de sorts, mais seulement s'il peut placer des attaques de base.
Essayez d'attaquer par le flanc ou de manière à ce qu'Emprise de la nature soit impossible à esquiver, ou prenez les ennemis par surprise.
Les arbrisseaux peuvent être lancés dans les hautes herbes pour renforcer leur effet, mais ils ne s'empilent pas.
Acheter un objet doté de l'effet Hémorragie facilitera grandement l'élimination de Swain pendant son Incarnation démoniaque.
La compétence passive de Swain est très puissante si vous êtes immobilisé. Soyez prudent à proximité des ennemis capables de vous immobiliser.
Une grande mobilité permet de contrer toutes les compétences de base de Swain : Poigne mortifère inflige plus de dégâts aux cibles les plus proches, Œil de l'empire a un très long délai et Capture n'est dangereuse qu'au retour.
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Maokai vs. Swain matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Maokai normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Maokai usually loses when taking on Swain, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Maokai makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Maokai does have a lower winrate than Swain, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Maokai into Swain.
Furthermore, Maokai also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Swain. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Maokai is a garbage counter for Swain. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Swain.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai often picks up less CS relative to Swain. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Maokai versus Swain build consist of Vœu du chevalier, Médaillon de l'Iron Solari, and Traîneau du solstice. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 47.6% battling Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Swain as Maokai, you should equip the Après-coup, Fontaine de vie, Plaque d'os, Inébranlable, Livraison de biscuits, and Savoir cosmique runes from the Volonté and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Maokai vs Swain clashes, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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