Braum with Maokai
How to Synergize Braum and Maokai
based on 435 Braum with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Braum Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Braum and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Braum with Maokai
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
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.
Braum Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Braum in LoL
The Braum 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, Braum sees a large worsening in his 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 Braum perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Braum is an ally to Maokai, he gets a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Maokai helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Braum is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Braum plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Braum during team fights.
Synergies between Braum and Maokai
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Is Braum better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect synergy for Braum that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very bad companion for Braum. By locking into the same team as Braum, he decreases their win rate by -6.1% to 45.3%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Braum and Maokai that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Braum. That means Braum players don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Braum and Maokai together, you may not be granting your team a lot of AD. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold 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 Braum to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Braum and Maokai synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Braum used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Braum boasted an average win rate of 45.3% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.3% win rate overall.
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