Lucian with Maokai
How to Synergize Lucian and Maokai
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Lucian Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Maokai
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Lucian perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Maokai, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may indicate that Maokai provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Lucian 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 Lucian in team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal companion for Lucian that will always be his top ally. Yet, Maokai is a decent teammate for Lucian. By playing on the same team as Lucian, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a good bond between Lucian and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Lucian and Maokai together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Lucian to synergize with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Lucian and Maokai synergy build include Guardian Angel, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Lucian players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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