Maokai with Viego
How to Synergize Maokai and Viego
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Maokai Viego Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Viego
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Viego
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 Viego Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viego as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Viego synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viego, 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 Viego. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Viego helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Viego, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Viego does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Viego on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Viego.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Viego on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Viego does a decent job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Viego?
There is no one best champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Viego is a very typical companion for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, they lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 52.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Maokai and Viego that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Viego has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players should be very careful when finding Viego allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Viego together, you will not be granting your side very much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Viego ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai to work well with Viego during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Maokai and Viego synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Viego than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Viego with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Viego with Maokai are displayed for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.