Maokai with Kayn
How to Synergize Maokai and Kayn
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Maokai Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Maokai Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Kayn, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kayn provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Kayn on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kayn does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Kayn
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Kayn is a very typical companion for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 53.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Maokai and Kayn that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be very careful when enlisting Kayn teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Maokai players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Kayn together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to work well with Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Maokai and Kayn synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Kayn than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.4% when playing alongside Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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