Maokai with Lillia
How to Synergize Maokai and Lillia
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Maokai Lillia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Lillia
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Lillia
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.
Maokai Lillia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lillia as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Lillia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lillia, 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 Lillia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lillia helps Maokai perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Lillia, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Lillia does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Lillia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lillia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lillia.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Lillia on the same side, he on average receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Lillia does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Lillia?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Lillia is a top-tier ally for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 4.9% to 57.5%. This proves that there is a very strong bond between Maokai and Lillia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Lillia has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be cautious when lining up Lillia teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Lillia together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Lillia ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Lillia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Maokai and Lillia synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Lillia than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 57.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lillia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Maokai and Lillia pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 57.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Lillia with Maokai are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.