Maokai with Lucian
How to Synergize Maokai and Lucian
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Maokai Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Maokai Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lucian helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Lucian, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Lucian provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lucian.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Lucian on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Lucian is a not very good ally for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Maokai and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you need to be cautious when finding Lucian allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Lucian together, you will not be providing your side enough magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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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 work well with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Maokai and Lucian synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Lucian than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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