Maokai with Kha'Zix
How to Synergize Maokai and Kha'Zix
based on 3,941 Maokai with Kha'Zix pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Kha'Zix Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Kha'Zix Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kha'Zix
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 Kha'Zix Will Play
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
Maokai Kha'Zix Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kha'Zix as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Kha'Zix synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kha'Zix, 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 Kha'Zix. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kha'Zix helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Kha'Zix, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Kha'Zix doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Kha'Zix on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kha'Zix. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kha'Zix.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Kha'Zix on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kha'Zix does a decent job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Kha'Zix
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kha'Zix?
There is no ideal synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Kha'Zix is a decent ally for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 53.9%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Maokai and Kha'Zix that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kha'Zix has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be careful when finding Kha'Zix teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Kha'Zix together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kha'Zix teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to pair well with Kha'Zix during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Maokai and Kha'Zix synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kha'Zix than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kha'Zix with these items in his kit.
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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.9% win rate overall.
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