Maokai with Kalista
How to Synergize Maokai and Kalista
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Maokai Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Maokai Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Kalista, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Kalista does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kalista.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Kalista on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Kalista
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Kalista is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -0.9% to 51.7%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Maokai and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kalista has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be cautious when lining up Kalista comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal 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 Kalista together, you may not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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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 Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Maokai and Kalista synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kalista than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 51.7% helping carry Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing 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 rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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