Maokai with Qiyana
How to Synergize Maokai and Qiyana
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Maokai Qiyana Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Qiyana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Qiyana
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Qiyana
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 Qiyana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Qiyana as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Qiyana helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Qiyana, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Qiyana supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Qiyana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Qiyana.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Qiyana on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Qiyana does a decent job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Qiyana
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Qiyana?
There is no perfect companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Qiyana is a below average companion for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Maokai and Qiyana that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Qiyana has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be very careful when finding Qiyana comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Qiyana together, you will not be granting your team very much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Qiyana teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai to pair well with Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Maokai and Qiyana synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Qiyana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Qiyana with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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