Jax with Maokai
How to Synergize Jax and Maokai
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Jax Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Jax Maokai Synergy Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Jax with Maokai
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Advice to Understand How Maokai Will Play
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Jax Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Jax perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax tries to synergize with Maokai, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax 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 with Maokai.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Maokai on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Jax in teamfights.
Synergies between Jax and Maokai
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Is Jax better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Jax that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a very typical teammate for Jax. By locking into the same team as Jax, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Jax and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Jax and Maokai together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Jax in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Jax and Maokai synergy build consist of Divine Sunderer, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Jax bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Jax and Maokai pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Maokai with Jax are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.