Maokai with Sona
How to Synergize Maokai and Sona
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Maokai Sona Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Sona
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Maokai Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sona helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Sona, he gets a massive increase in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Sona provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Sona on the same side, he typically takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Sona does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Sona
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Sona?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Sona is a relatively poor teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, she lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Sona that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Sona has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be cautious when arranging Sona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Sona together, you may not be giving your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Sona ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Maokai and Sona synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Sona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Sona with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Maokai players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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