Mordekaiser with Maokai
How to Synergize Mordekaiser and Maokai
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Mordekaiser Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Mordekaiser and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser with Maokai
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Advice to Understand How Maokai Will Play
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.
Mordekaiser Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Mordekaiser in LoL
The Mordekaiser Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Mordekaiser sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Mordekaiser perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Mordekaiser tries to synergize with Maokai, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Maokai provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Mordekaiser is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Mordekaiser plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Mordekaiser in teamfights.
Synergies between Mordekaiser and Maokai
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Is Mordekaiser better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Mordekaiser that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Maokai is a top-tier ally for Mordekaiser. By being on the same team as Mordekaiser, he increases their win rate by 3.6% to 56.1%. This proves that there is a very strong synergy between Mordekaiser and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Mordekaiser. That means Mordekaiser players don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Mordekaiser players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Mordekaiser and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 truly master Mordekaiser in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Mordekaiser and Maokai synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average winrate of 56.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 56.1% win rate overall.
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