Lee Sin with Maokai
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Maokai
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Lee Sin Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Maokai
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a large worsening in his 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 Lee Sin perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin plays on the same team as Maokai, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Lee Sin plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Lee Sin in teamfights.
Synergies between Lee Sin and Maokai
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal ally for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Lee Sin. By playing on the same side as Lee Sin, he raises their win rate by 2.9% to 50.2%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Lee Sin and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Lee Sin. That means Lee Sin players don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Lee Sin and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Lee Sin to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Lee Sin and Maokai synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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