Lee Sin vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Lee Sin
based on 4,578 Lee Sin vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Maokai
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Lee Sin versus Maokai counter statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Maokai
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Maokai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 45.0% win rate. As a result, Lee Sin makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Lee Sin does have a much lower winrate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lee Sin into Maokai.
Additionally, Lee Sin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a bad counter for Maokai. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lee Sin against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin to counter Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Maokai. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Lee Sin versus Maokai build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 45.0% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Maokai as Lee Sin, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Lee Sin vs Maokai counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.0% winrate overall.
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