Maokai with Samira
How to Synergize Maokai and Samira
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Maokai Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Samira
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Samira
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 Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Samira helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Samira, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Samira doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Samira on the same side, 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 Samira.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Samira on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Samira does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Samira?
There is no top champion pairing for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Samira is a relatively poor companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -1.1% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Maokai and Samira that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you need to be careful when finding Samira allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Maokai players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Maokai and Samira together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Samira ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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
To truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Maokai and Samira synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Samira than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing alongside Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Maokai and Samira pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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