Jax with Maokai
How to Synergize Jax and Maokai
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Jax Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Jax with Maokai
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
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 decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Jax perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax is paired with Maokai, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Jax plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Jax during team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Maokai
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Is Jax better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best synergy for Jax that will always be his #1 ally. However, Maokai is a good companion for Jax. By locking into the same team as Jax, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 53.4%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Jax and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Jax players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Jax and Maokai together, you will not be giving your team enough sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you need to 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Jax to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Jax and Maokai synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Titanic Hydra. When Jax incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 53.4% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Jax players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.4% win rate overall.
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