Maokai with Alistar
How to Synergize Maokai and Alistar
based on 721 Maokai with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Maokai Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Maokai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Alistar, he sees a great improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Alistar supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Alistar 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 with Alistar.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Alistar on the same side, he often takes significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Alistar
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no ideal ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Alistar is a very bad teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -6.6% to 46.0%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Maokai and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Alistar allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Maokai players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Alistar together, you will not be providing your other teammates much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Maokai Alistar Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to work well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL 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 presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Maokai and Alistar synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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