Malphite with Maokai
How to Synergize Malphite and Maokai
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Malphite Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Maokai
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite 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, Malphite sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Malphite perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Maokai, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Maokai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside 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 Malphite plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Maokai
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Malphite that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a decent ally for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 52.8%. This shows that there is a good bond between Malphite and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means Malphite players need to be cautious when enlisting Maokai comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, Malphite players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Malphite and Maokai together, you will not be providing your side very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Malphite and Maokai synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Malphite players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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