Maokai with Ryze
How to Synergize Maokai and Ryze
based on 1,319 Maokai with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Ryze
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 Ryze Will Play
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Maokai Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ryze helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Ryze, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Ryze doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ryze.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Ryze on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ryze does a poor job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Ryze
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Ryze is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Maokai and Ryze that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Ryze has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Ryze comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Ryze together, you will not be granting your side very much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Maokai and Ryze synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Ryze than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.7% helping carry Ryze with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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