Maokai with Syndra
How to Synergize Maokai and Syndra
based on 3,432 Maokai with Syndra pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Syndra Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Syndra
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Syndra
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 Syndra Will Play
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Maokai Syndra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Syndra as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Syndra helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Syndra, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Syndra doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Syndra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Syndra. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Syndra.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Syndra on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Syndra does a poor job of covering Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Syndra
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Syndra?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Syndra is a terrible ally for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, she decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 49.4%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Syndra that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Syndra has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be cautious when enlisting Syndra teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Syndra together, you will not be granting your other allies very much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Syndra ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Maokai and Syndra synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Syndra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Syndra with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should take 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 that we analyzed for Maokai and Syndra pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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