Maokai with Irelia
How to Synergize Maokai and Irelia
based on 3,958 Maokai with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Maokai Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Irelia helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Irelia, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Irelia doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Irelia 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 alongside Irelia.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Irelia on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Irelia
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no top companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Irelia is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, she improves their win rate by 0.2% to 52.8%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Irelia that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you should be cautious when finding Irelia allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Irelia together, you will not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 pair well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Maokai and Irelia synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Irelia than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 rune combinations players picked for Maokai and Irelia pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Irelia with Maokai are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.