Aatrox with Maokai
How to Synergize Aatrox and Maokai
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Aatrox Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Maokai
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Aatrox Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Aatrox perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox tries to synergize with Maokai, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Maokai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Aatrox during teamfights.
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best ally for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a decent ally for Aatrox. By locking into the same team as Aatrox, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 52.7%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Aatrox and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Aatrox players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Aatrox and Maokai together, you probably will not be providing your side enough AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aatrox to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Aatrox and Maokai synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 52.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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