Maokai with Nilah
How to Synergize Maokai and Nilah
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Maokai Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Nilah
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 Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nilah helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Nilah, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Nilah helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nilah.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Nilah on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Nilah
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Nilah is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, they improves their win rate by 0.9% to 53.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Maokai and Nilah that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be careful when lining up Nilah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Maokai players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Nilah together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai to work well with Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Maokai and Nilah synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nilah than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 53.5% when playing alongside Nilah with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 chose for Maokai and Nilah pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Nilah with Maokai are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.