Maokai with Corki
How to Synergize Maokai and Corki
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Maokai Corki Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Corki
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Corki
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 Corki Will Play
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
Maokai Corki Synergy Stats
How to Play with Corki as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Corki synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Corki, 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 Corki. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Corki helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Corki, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Corki supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Corki 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 Corki.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Corki on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Corki does a poor job of covering Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Corki
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Corki?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Corki is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 53.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Maokai and Corki that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Corki has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be very careful when lining up Corki allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Corki together, you will not be providing your team very much utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Corki ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai to pair well with Corki during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Maokai and Corki synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Corki than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 53.2% helping carry Corki with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Maokai and Corki pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.2% winrate overall.
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