Maokai with Ziggs
How to Synergize Maokai and Ziggs
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Maokai Ziggs Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Maokai Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ziggs. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ziggs helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Ziggs, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Ziggs does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Ziggs 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 synergisticly with Ziggs.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Ziggs on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no ideal ally for Maokai that will always be his top synergy. However, Ziggs is a very typical companion for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 51.8%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Maokai and Ziggs that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Ziggs has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be cautious when arranging Ziggs allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Maokai players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Ziggs together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Ziggs ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Maokai in order to work well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Maokai and Ziggs synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Maokai and Ziggs pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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