Maokai with Rakan
How to Synergize Maokai and Rakan
based on 1,205 Maokai with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Maokai Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rakan helps Maokai perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Rakan, he sees a great improvement in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Rakan on the same side, he often takes much more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Rakan does a poor job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Rakan
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Rakan is a below average teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -2.6% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Maokai and Rakan that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be cautious when enlisting Rakan teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Rakan together, you will not be giving your other allies enough sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 work well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Maokai and Rakan synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should equip 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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