Maokai with Vex
How to Synergize Maokai and Vex
based on 2,787 Maokai with Vex pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Vex Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Vex
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Vex
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.
Maokai Vex Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vex as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Vex synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vex, 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 Vex. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vex helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Vex, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Vex does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Vex 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 Vex.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Vex on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Vex does a decent job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Vex?
There is no ideal synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Vex is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, they decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 52.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Maokai and Vex that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vex has a much lower diffuclty than Maokai. That means Maokai players don't need to be cautious when lining up Vex teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Maokai players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Vex together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Vex ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai in order to work well with Vex during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Maokai and Vex synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vex than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 52.4% when playing alongside Vex with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Maokai and Vex pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.4% win rate overall.
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