Maokai with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Maokai and Vel'Koz
based on 1,703 Maokai with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Maokai Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Vel'Koz, he observes a noticable increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Vel'Koz provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, 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 Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Vel'Koz
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a below average ally for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Maokai and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be careful when finding Vel'Koz allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your side a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning 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 tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Maokai and Vel'Koz synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 50.4% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you 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 builds that we analyzed for Maokai and Vel'Koz pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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