Maokai with Tristana
How to Synergize Maokai and Tristana
based on 5,409 Maokai with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Tristana Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Maokai Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tristana helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Tristana, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Tristana doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Tristana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Tristana.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Tristana on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Tristana does a decent job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Tristana
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no one best ally for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Tristana is a very typical ally for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -0.9% to 51.7%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Tristana that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Tristana has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when arranging Tristana allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Tristana together, you will not be granting your team enough crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tristana ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Maokai and Tristana synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Tristana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing alongside Tristana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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