Maokai with Shyvana
How to Synergize Maokai and Shyvana
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Maokai Shyvana Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Shyvana
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 Shyvana Will Play
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Maokai Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shyvana helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Shyvana, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Shyvana does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Shyvana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shyvana.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Shyvana on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Shyvana does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Shyvana
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no perfect ally for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Shyvana is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she improves their win rate by 0.6% to 53.2%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Maokai and Shyvana that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Shyvana has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be cautious when arranging Shyvana teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Shyvana together, you may not be giving your side much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Maokai and Shyvana synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shyvana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 53.2% helping carry Shyvana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Shyvana with Maokai are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.