Aphelios with Maokai
How to Synergize Aphelios and Maokai
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Aphelios Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Maokai
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios 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 Aphelios perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Maokai, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Maokai on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best companion for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Maokai is a pretty good teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Aphelios and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other allies enough AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Maokai synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Aphelios used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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