Maokai with Rammus
How to Synergize Maokai and Rammus
based on 1,976 Maokai with Rammus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Rammus Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Rammus
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Rammus
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 Rammus Will Play
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Maokai Rammus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rammus as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Rammus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rammus, 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 Rammus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rammus helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Rammus, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Rammus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Rammus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rammus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rammus.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Rammus on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rammus does a decent job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Rammus
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Rammus?
There is no ideal synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Rammus is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 51.7%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Rammus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Rammus has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Rammus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Rammus together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Rammus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to pair well with Rammus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Maokai and Rammus synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Rammus than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 51.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rammus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use 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 combinations players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Rammus with Maokai are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.