Kayle with Maokai
How to Synergize Kayle and Maokai
based on 4,503 Kayle with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayle Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayle and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kayle with Maokai
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kayle in LoL
The Kayle 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, Kayle sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Kayle perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayle is an ally to Maokai, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Maokai helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayle is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Kayle plays with Maokai on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Kayle in team fights.
Synergies between Kayle and Maokai
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Is Kayle better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best companion for Kayle that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a fantastic teammate for Kayle. By being on the same side as Kayle, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 54.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong synergy between Kayle and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Kayle. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kayle players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Kayle and Maokai together, you will not be giving your other allies very much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Kayle in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Kayle and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 54.5% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kayle and Maokai pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.5% winrate overall.
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