Brand vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Brand
based on 9,764 Brand vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Maokai
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Brand against Maokai counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Brand normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Maokai. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Maokai
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Who is Better, Brand or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when facing off against Maokai, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Brand makes an ok counter to Maokai.
While Brand does have a lower win rate compared to Maokai, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Maokai.
Additionally, Brand also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand 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 allies during teamfights.
Brand is a somewhat poor counter to Maokai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Maokai. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Brand versus Maokai build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when countering Maokai with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Brand, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Brand vs Maokai LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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