Varus vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Varus
based on 6,401 Varus vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Maokai Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Varus Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Maokai as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Maokai
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Varus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Varus vs. Maokai counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between these two champs. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Maokai. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Varus typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Varus and Maokai
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Varus or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Varus usually loses when playing against Maokai, with a 45.5% win rate. Thus, Varus makes a bad counter to Maokai.
While Varus does have a much lower win rate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Varus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Varus into Maokai.
Furthermore, Varus has only a small 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Varus vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Varus is a bad counter for Maokai. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Varus against Maokai.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
Additional Information for Varus Players
How We Calculated Our Varus vs Maokai Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus often accumulates much more CS compared to Maokai. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Varus versus Maokai build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Varus used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 45.5% battling Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Maokai as Varus, Varus players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Varus vs Maokai counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% winrate overall.
If you would like to view Varus vs Maokai tips and counter builds for a a particular division rank, please select one from the selection menu shown above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and build suggestions shown are computed using every match with data with these champs.