Hecarim with Maokai
How to Synergize Hecarim and Maokai
based on 3,158 Hecarim with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Maokai
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim 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 fall shows that Maokai helps Hecarim perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim plays on the same team as Maokai, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Maokai provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played 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 with Maokai.
Additionally, when Hecarim plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Hecarim during teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Maokai
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top companion for Hecarim that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Hecarim. By playing on the same team as Hecarim, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Hecarim and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Hecarim and Maokai together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Hecarim and Maokai synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Hecarim and Maokai pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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