Maokai with Nami
How to Synergize Maokai and Nami
based on 1,171 Maokai with Nami pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Nami Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Nami
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Maokai Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Nami, he gets a very large increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Nami helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nami.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Nami on the same team, he on average receives much more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nami does a poor job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Nami
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Nami?
There is no ideal synergy for Maokai that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Nami is a not very good ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 50.8%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Maokai and Nami that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nami has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when arranging Nami teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Nami together, you may not be giving your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nami ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Maokai Nami Synergy Build and Stats
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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 Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Maokai and Nami synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nami than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 50.8% helping carry Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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