Maokai with Volibear
How to Synergize Maokai and Volibear
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Maokai Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Volibear
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 Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Volibear helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Volibear, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Volibear does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Volibear on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Volibear.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Volibear on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Volibear does a decent job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Volibear
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no perfect companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Volibear is a not very good companion for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 50.7%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Maokai and Volibear that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Volibear has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players don't need to be careful when enlisting Volibear allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Maokai players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Volibear together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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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 synergize with Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Maokai and Volibear synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Volibear than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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