Maokai with Lissandra
How to Synergize Maokai and Lissandra
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Maokai Lissandra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Lissandra
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 Lissandra Will Play
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Maokai Lissandra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lissandra as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 Lissandra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lissandra helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Lissandra, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This could indicate that Lissandra does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Lissandra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lissandra.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Lissandra on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Lissandra does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Lissandra
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Lissandra?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Lissandra is a very typical ally for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 53.0%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Maokai and Lissandra that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Lissandra has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Lissandra allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Lissandra together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Lissandra ally's skill level, 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 Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Maokai and Lissandra synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Lissandra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 53.0% helping carry Lissandra with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.0% winrate overall.
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