Maokai with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Maokai and Rek'Sai
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Maokai Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Maokai Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rek'Sai helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Rek'Sai, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Rek'Sai does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Rek'Sai does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Rek'Sai
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Rek'Sai is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 52.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Maokai and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players don't need to be careful when finding Rek'Sai comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Maokai players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Rek'Sai together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Rek'Sai ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to synergize with Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Maokai and Rek'Sai synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Rek'Sai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.6% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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