Kayn with Maokai
How to Synergize Kayn and Maokai
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Kayn Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Maokai
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Kayn perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is an ally to Maokai, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Maokai helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside 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 alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Maokai on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Kayn in teamfights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect companion for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Maokai is a superb ally for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he improves their win rate by 4.2% to 53.4%. This signals that there is an important bond between Kayn and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Maokai comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Kayn and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other allies much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Kayn to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Kayn and Maokai synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Kayn used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
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