Maokai with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Maokai and Lee Sin
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Maokai Lee Sin Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Maokai Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lee Sin 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 Lee Sin, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Lee Sin does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Lee Sin on the same team, 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 Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Lee Sin on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no ideal companion for Maokai that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Lee Sin is a not very good teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Maokai and Lee Sin that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you should be cautious when arranging Lee Sin teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Maokai and Lee Sin together, you may not be providing your side enough AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Maokai and Lee Sin synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Lee Sin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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