Gragas with Maokai
How to Synergize Gragas and Maokai
based on 2,244 Gragas with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Maokai
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas tries to synergize with Maokai, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Maokai helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Maokai on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Maokai
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gragas that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Maokai is a decent ally for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Gragas and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Gragas players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Gragas and Maokai together, you will not be providing your side enough sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Gragas and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Gragas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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