Xayah vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Xayah
based on 2,455 Xayah vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Maokai
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Xayah in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Xayah vs. Maokai counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Maokai’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Xayah typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xayah and Maokai
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Who is Better, Xayah or Maokai?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 45.3% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Xayah does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Maokai.
Moreover, Xayah also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion 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.
Xayah is a terribly counter to Maokai. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average accumulates much more CS relative to Maokai. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Xayah versus Maokai build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Phantom Dancer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 45.3% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Maokai as Xayah, Xayah players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Xayah vs Maokai counters, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
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