Lissandra with Maokai
How to Synergize Lissandra and Maokai
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Lissandra Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Lissandra vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lissandra and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Lissandra with Maokai
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Lissandra in LoL
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Lissandra perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is an ally to Maokai, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Maokai helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Maokai on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
Synergies between Lissandra and Maokai
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Is Lissandra better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal ally for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Maokai is a great ally for Lissandra. By being on the same team as Lissandra, he raises their win rate by 3.5% to 53.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real synergy between Lissandra and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Lissandra. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lissandra players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lissandra and Maokai together, you may not be giving your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Lissandra and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Lissandra players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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