Maokai with Veigar
How to Synergize Maokai and Veigar
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Maokai Veigar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Veigar
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Veigar
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 Veigar Will Play
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Maokai Veigar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Veigar as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, 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 Veigar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Veigar helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Veigar, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Veigar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Veigar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Veigar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Veigar.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Veigar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Veigar does a poor job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Veigar
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Veigar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Veigar is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 52.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Veigar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Veigar has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players should be careful when enlisting Veigar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Veigar together, you probably will not be giving your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Veigar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 to work well with Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Maokai and Veigar synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Veigar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should take 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 this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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