Maokai with Jhin
How to Synergize Maokai and Jhin
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Maokai Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Jhin
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 Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Maokai Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Jhin helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Jhin, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Jhin helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Jhin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jhin.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Jhin on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Jhin does a poor job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Jhin
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no one best companion for Maokai that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Jhin is a very typical ally for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 53.5%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Maokai and Jhin that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Jhin has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Jhin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Jhin together, you probably will not be granting your side enough engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Jhin teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 work well with Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Maokai and Jhin synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Jhin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when playing alongside Jhin with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Maokai and Jhin pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.5% win rate overall.
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