Maokai with Ornn
How to Synergize Maokai and Ornn
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Maokai Ornn Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Ornn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Ornn
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Ornn
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 Ornn Will Play
Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
Maokai Ornn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ornn as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Ornn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ornn, 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 Ornn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ornn helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Ornn, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Ornn does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Ornn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ornn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ornn.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Ornn on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Ornn does a decent job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Ornn
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Ornn?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Ornn is a very typical companion for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 52.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Maokai and Ornn that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ornn has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be cautious when enlisting Ornn comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Ornn together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ornn ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai to work well with Ornn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Maokai and Ornn synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Ornn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing alongside Ornn with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 builds players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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