Maokai with Garen
How to Synergize Maokai and Garen
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Maokai Garen Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Garen
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Maokai Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Garen, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Garen does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Garen on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Garen
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Garen is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be cautious when finding Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Garen together, you may not be giving your team a lot of AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to pair well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Maokai and Garen synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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