Ahri with Maokai
How to Synergize Ahri and Maokai
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Ahri Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ahri and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Ahri with Maokai
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Ahri in LoL
The Ahri Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Ahri perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri is an ally to Maokai, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Ahri plays with Maokai on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Ahri during teamfights.
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Is Ahri better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best companion for Ahri that will always be her best ally. Yet, overall, Maokai is a fantastic teammate for Ahri. By playing on the same team as Ahri, he increases their win rate by 3.0% to 51.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong bond between Ahri and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Ahri. That means Ahri players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Ahri players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Ahri and Maokai together, you will not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ahri to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ahri and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Ahri used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Ahri players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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