Akali with Maokai
How to Synergize Akali and Maokai
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Akali Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Akali with Maokai
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Akali perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Maokai, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Maokai on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Akali in teamfights.
Synergies between Akali and Maokai
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Is Akali better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best companion for Akali that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Maokai is a decent companion for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he improves their win rate by 2.8% to 51.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Akali and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Akali players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Akali and Maokai together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Akali and Maokai synergy build include Banshee's Veil, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 51.9% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Akali players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
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