Leona with Maokai
How to Synergize Leona and Maokai
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Leona Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Leona with Maokai
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 drop shows that Maokai helps Leona perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is an ally to Maokai, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Maokai provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Maokai on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Maokai on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Maokai
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Is Leona better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect synergy for Leona that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Maokai is a not very good teammate for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Leona and Maokai that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Leona players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Leona and Maokai together, you will not be granting your side enough attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Leona and Maokai synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
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