Maokai with Talon
How to Synergize Maokai and Talon
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Maokai Talon Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Talon
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Maokai Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Talon helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Talon, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Talon helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Talon on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Talon
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Talon?
There is no top companion for Maokai that will always be his best ally. Yet, Talon is a below average teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Maokai and Talon that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players should be very careful when lining up Talon comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Talon together, you may not be providing your team much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Talon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Maokai and Talon synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Talon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 51.0% helping carry Talon with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Maokai players should use 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 sets players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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