Maokai with Pyke
How to Synergize Maokai and Pyke
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Maokai Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Maokai Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Maokai perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Pyke, he observes a big jump in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Pyke provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Pyke on the same team, he on average takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Pyke does a poor job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best synergy for Maokai that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Pyke is a very bad companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -4.9% to 47.7%. This signals that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be careful when lining up Pyke comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Pyke together, you may not be granting your side a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Maokai and Pyke synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Pyke than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 47.7% helping carry Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Maokai and Pyke pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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