Lux with Maokai
How to Synergize Lux and Maokai
based on 7,912 Lux with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Lux with Maokai
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Lux perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux plays on the same team as Maokai, she sees a noticable increase in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Maokai helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Maokai on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Lux during teamfights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Lux that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Maokai is a decent ally for Lux. By being on the same side as Lux, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Lux and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Lux. That means Lux players don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Lux players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Lux and Maokai together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux in order to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Lux and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Lux incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Maokai with Lux are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.