Morgana vs Maokai Counter Pick

Three hundred and twenty-five units separate these two: Morgana casts from 450 while Maokai has to reach 125 to do anything at all. In a support matchup that gap decides how often each champion gets to act, and over 429 games on patch 16.13.1 it produces a 54.8% record for Morgana.

• Both deal magic damage, so the 123.4 armor Maokai reaches at level 18 is wasted, while his 32 magic resistance has to hold against the ramping damage over time of Tormented Shadow.
• Twisted Advance is untargetable in flight, which beats Dark Binding outright, but it ends with him standing next to a champion who heals from her own damage through Soul Siphon.
• Black Shield eats a magic hit and a disable in the same cast, and almost everything he threatens — the root on Twisted Advance, the slow on Bramble Smash, the wall of Nature’s Grasp — is one or the other.
• Sapling Toss controls brush and is the reason 335 move speed, identical on both sides, still feels slow when there is ground to cross.

Health favors Maokai at 665 growing to 2,518 against 630 and 2,398, and he is rated a 3 on difficulty against her 1, but neither number changes the shape of the fight: he has to be adjacent, and she never does. Soul Shackles is also the cleaner ultimate in a crowded scrap, chaining everyone nearby instead of committing to a single advancing line.