Maokai with Braum
How to Synergize Maokai and Braum
based on 435 Maokai with Braum pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Braum Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Braum
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Braum
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 Braum Will Play
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Maokai Braum Synergy Stats
How to Play with Braum as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Braum synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Braum, 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 Braum. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Braum helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Braum, he observes a great improvement in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Braum provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Braum on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Braum.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Braum on the same team, he usually takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Braum does a poor job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Braum
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Braum?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Braum is a very bad teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -7.3% to 45.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Maokai and Braum that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Braum has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players don't need to be cautious when finding Braum teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Maokai players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Braum together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Braum ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to synergize with Braum during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Maokai and Braum synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Braum than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 45.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Braum with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
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