Akshan with Maokai
How to Synergize Akshan and Maokai
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Akshan Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Maokai
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is paired with Maokai, they observes a little increase in their total damage output. This may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Maokai on the same side, they usually receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Akshan in teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their ideal teammate. However, Maokai is a top-tier ally for Akshan. By being on the same side as Akshan, he raises their win rate by 4.1% to 53.1%. This signals that there is a strong synergy between Akshan and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a greater difficulty than Akshan. That means Akshan players need to be careful when arranging Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Akshan players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Akshan and Maokai together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Akshan and Maokai synergy build include Terminus, Kraken Slayer, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan included at least these three great items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 53.1% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
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