Maokai with Shaco
How to Synergize Maokai and Shaco
based on 3,956 Maokai with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Maokai Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shaco helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Shaco, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Shaco provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Shaco on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Shaco does a poor job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Shaco
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Shaco is a relatively poor ally for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Maokai and Shaco that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be cautious when enlisting Shaco comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Maokai and Shaco together, you may not be providing your other allies much sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai in order to synergize with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Maokai and Shaco synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Shaco than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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 sets that we analyzed for Maokai and Shaco pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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