Orianna with Maokai
How to Synergize Orianna and Maokai
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Orianna Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Maokai
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Maokai, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This change may signal that Maokai supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Maokai on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Orianna in team fights.
Synergies between Orianna and Maokai
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best companion for Orianna that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a top-tier teammate for Orianna. By being on the same side as Orianna, he increases their win rate by 3.5% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong synergy between Orianna and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Orianna. That means Orianna players don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Orianna and Maokai together, you will not be giving your side a lot of attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Orianna and Maokai synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 51.0% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Orianna players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Maokai with Orianna are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.