Maokai with Cassiopeia
How to Synergize Maokai and Cassiopeia
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Maokai Cassiopeia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia Will Play
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
Maokai Cassiopeia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cassiopeia as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Cassiopeia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cassiopeia, 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 Cassiopeia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Cassiopeia helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Cassiopeia, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Cassiopeia does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Cassiopeia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Cassiopeia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Cassiopeia.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Cassiopeia on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Cassiopeia does a decent job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Cassiopeia
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Cassiopeia?
There is no one best champion pairing for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Cassiopeia is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 0.8% to 53.4%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Maokai and Cassiopeia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Cassiopeia has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when lining up Cassiopeia teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Cassiopeia together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Cassiopeia ally, you need to focus on maximizing 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 truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Cassiopeia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Maokai and Cassiopeia synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Cassiopeia than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Maokai and Cassiopeia pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Cassiopeia with Maokai are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.