Jax vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Jax
based on 10,447 Jax vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jax vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Jax vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Jax
Tips for Playing as Jax against Maokai
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Jax in LoL
The stats shown here feature some important Jax versus Maokai counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Jax’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jax may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Jax normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Maokai. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jax and Maokai
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Who is Better, Jax or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jax usually loses when trying to fight Maokai, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Jax makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Jax does have a lower winrate than Maokai, when facing one another, Jax also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Jax into Maokai.
Additionally, Jax has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Jax vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Jax is a terribly counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Jax against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jax to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jax often gets more CS as Maokai. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Jax versus Maokai build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Jax included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Maokai as Jax, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Jax vs Maokai counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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