Maokai with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Maokai and Blitzcrank
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Maokai Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Maokai Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Blitzcrank helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Blitzcrank, he observes a very large increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Blitzcrank provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Blitzcrank does a poor job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Blitzcrank
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Blitzcrank is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 52.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Blitzcrank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when lining up Blitzcrank allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Blitzcrank together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Blitzcrank teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Maokai and Blitzcrank synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Blitzcrank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.3% when playing alongside Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Maokai and Blitzcrank pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Blitzcrank with Maokai are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.