Maokai with LeBlanc
How to Synergize Maokai and LeBlanc
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Maokai LeBlanc Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as Maokai with LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc Will Play
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
Maokai LeBlanc Synergy Stats
How to Play with LeBlanc as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai LeBlanc synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with LeBlanc, 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 LeBlanc. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that LeBlanc helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to LeBlanc, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This could indicate that LeBlanc supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with LeBlanc 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 synergisticly with LeBlanc.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with LeBlanc on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that LeBlanc does a poor job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside LeBlanc?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Maokai that will always be his top synergy. However, LeBlanc is a below average companion for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -1.5% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Maokai and LeBlanc that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
LeBlanc has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players should be very careful when finding LeBlanc comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Maokai and LeBlanc together, you may not be giving your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your LeBlanc teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 synergize with LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Maokai and LeBlanc synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside LeBlanc than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to LeBlanc with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Maokai players should equip 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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