Maokai with Nasus
How to Synergize Maokai and Nasus
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Maokai Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Maokai Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nasus helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Nasus, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Nasus does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nasus.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Nasus on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nasus does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect companion for Maokai that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Nasus is a very typical ally for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Maokai and Nasus that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be very careful when finding Nasus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Nasus together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai to synergize with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Maokai and Nasus synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nasus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.7% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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