Maokai with Brand
How to Synergize Maokai and Brand
based on 6,844 Maokai with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Brand Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Brand
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Maokai Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Brand, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Brand supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Brand.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Brand on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Brand
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Brand?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Maokai that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Brand is a top-tier teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 3.9% to 56.5%. This proves that there is an important synergy between Maokai and Brand that results in them performing better together than alone.
Brand has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Brand comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Brand together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Maokai Brand Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai to pair well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Maokai and Brand synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Brand than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 56.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 56.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Brand with Maokai are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.