Illaoi with Maokai
How to Synergize Illaoi and Maokai
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Illaoi Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Maokai
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Maokai, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Maokai helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Maokai on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Maokai
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Illaoi that will always be her best synergy. However, Maokai is a great companion for Illaoi. By playing on the same team as Illaoi, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 52.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Illaoi and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Illaoi and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Illaoi and Maokai synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 52.8% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Illaoi players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.8% winrate overall.
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