Maokai with Leona
How to Synergize Maokai and Leona
based on 1,355 Maokai with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Leona Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Leona
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Maokai Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Leona, he sees a big jump in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Leona provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Leona.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Leona on the same team, he on average receives much more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Leona does a poor job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Leona
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Leona?
There is no top synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Leona is a relatively poor companion for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -2.2% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Leona that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Leona has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players should be cautious when finding Leona teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Leona together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Maokai to pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Maokai and Leona synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Leona with Maokai are displayed for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.