Maokai with Kayle
How to Synergize Maokai and Kayle
based on 4,503 Maokai with Kayle pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Kayle Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Maokai Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 Kayle. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayle helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Kayle, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Kayle doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Kayle 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 Kayle.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Kayle on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kayle does a decent job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Kayle
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Kayle is a decent ally for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 1.9% to 54.5%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Maokai and Kayle that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Kayle has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Kayle allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Kayle together, you probably will not be granting your team very much attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kayle teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Maokai and Kayle synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kayle than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 54.5% helping carry Kayle with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kayle with Maokai are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.