Brand with Maokai
How to Synergize Brand and Maokai
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Brand Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Brand with Maokai
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand 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 worsening shows that Maokai helps Brand perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand tries to synergize with Maokai, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Maokai provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together 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.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Brand in teamfights.
Synergies between Brand and Maokai
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Is Brand better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Brand that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Maokai is a fantastic teammate for Brand. By playing on the same side as Brand, he improves their win rate by 5.1% to 56.5%. This proves that there is an important bond between Brand and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Brand and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your 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 learn all of the intricacies of Brand to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Brand and Maokai synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Brand used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 56.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 56.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Maokai with Brand are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.