Maokai with Taric
How to Synergize Maokai and Taric
based on 431 Maokai with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Taric Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Taric Counter Build
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Core Maokai Items
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Taric
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Maokai Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taric helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Taric, he gets a massive increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Taric provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Taric 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 alongside Taric.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Taric on the same side, he typically takes much more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Taric does a poor job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Taric
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Taric?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Taric is a very typical companion for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Maokai and Taric that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players don't need to be careful when arranging Taric comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Taric together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 to synergize with Taric during both the early game 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 presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Maokai and Taric synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Taric than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Taric with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Maokai and Taric pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Taric with Maokai are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.