Maokai with Illaoi
How to Synergize Maokai and Illaoi
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Maokai Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Maokai Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Illaoi helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Illaoi, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This change could signal that Illaoi doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Illaoi on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Illaoi does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Illaoi
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Illaoi is a very typical companion for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 52.8%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Maokai and Illaoi that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Illaoi has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be careful when arranging Illaoi comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Illaoi together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 work well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Maokai and Illaoi synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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