Maokai with Trundle
How to Synergize Maokai and Trundle
based on 8,251 Maokai with Trundle pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Trundle Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Trundle Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Trundle
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Trundle
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 Trundle Will Play
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
Maokai Trundle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Trundle as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Trundle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Trundle, 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 Trundle. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Trundle helps Maokai perform not as well 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 Trundle, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Trundle does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Trundle on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Trundle. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Trundle.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Trundle on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Trundle does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Trundle
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Trundle?
There is no top ally for Maokai that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Trundle is a decent teammate for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 2.9% to 55.5%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Maokai and Trundle that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Trundle has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when finding Trundle comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Trundle together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Trundle ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Maokai and Trundle synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Sunfire Aegis, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Trundle than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 55.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Trundle with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Maokai and Trundle pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Trundle with Maokai are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.