Nami with Maokai
How to Synergize Nami and Maokai
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Nami Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Nami with Maokai
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Nami in LoL
The Nami Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Nami perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is paired with Maokai, she gets a noticable increase in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Maokai provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Maokai on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Nami in teamfights.
Synergies between Nami and Maokai
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Is Nami better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nami that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a pretty good ally for Nami. By being on the same side as Nami, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Nami and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Nami and Maokai together, you may not be granting your side much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nami to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Nami and Maokai synergy build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nami players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
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