Maokai with Zoe
How to Synergize Maokai and Zoe
based on 1,654 Maokai with Zoe pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Zoe Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Zoe
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Zoe
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 Zoe Will Play
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Maokai Zoe Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zoe as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zoe helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Zoe, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Zoe does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Zoe on the same side, 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 Zoe.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Zoe on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zoe does a poor job of covering Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Zoe
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Zoe?
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Zoe is a very bad ally for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, she decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 49.3%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Zoe that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zoe has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players should be cautious when lining up Zoe allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Zoe together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Maokai and Zoe synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zoe than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Maokai and Zoe pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zoe with Maokai are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.