Katarina with Maokai
How to Synergize Katarina and Maokai
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Katarina Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Maokai
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a large worsening in her 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 Katarina perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Maokai, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This may signal that Maokai provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Maokai on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Maokai
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Katarina that will always be her best ally. Yet, overall, Maokai is a good teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 51.1%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Katarina and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Maokai comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Katarina and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Katarina and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Katarina and Maokai pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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