Kindred with Maokai
How to Synergize Kindred and Maokai
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Kindred Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Maokai
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Kindred perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kindred is an ally to Maokai, they gets a little increase in their complete damage output. This change could indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Kindred plays with Maokai on the same side, they usually takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Kindred in teamfights.
Synergies between Kindred and Maokai
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect synergy for Kindred that will no matter what be their #1 synergy. However, Maokai is a superb ally for Kindred. By locking into the same side as Kindred, he increases their win rate by 5.0% to 53.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real synergy between Kindred and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Kindred. That means Kindred players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Kindred players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kindred and Maokai together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Kindred in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Kindred and Maokai synergy build include Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three great items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 53.3% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Kindred players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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