Maokai with Zed
How to Synergize Maokai and Zed
based on 5,564 Maokai with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Zed Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Zed
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Maokai Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Zed, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may signal that Zed supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Zed 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 with Zed.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Zed on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Zed
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Zed is a below average ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 51.1%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Maokai and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you need to be careful when arranging Zed teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Maokai and Zed synergy build consist of Thornmail, Solstice Sleigh, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 51.1% helping carry Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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