Poppy with Maokai
How to Synergize Poppy and Maokai
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Poppy Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Poppy Maokai Synergy Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Maokai
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Advice to Understand How Maokai Will Play
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Poppy Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Poppy perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Maokai, she observes a sizeable uptick in her full damage output. This change could signal that Maokai helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Maokai on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Maokai
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best synergy for Poppy that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very bad ally for Poppy. By locking into the same side as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -4.4% to 44.7%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Poppy and Maokai that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by bringing Poppy and Maokai together, you may not be giving your team enough magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Poppy to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Poppy and Maokai synergy build consist of Divine Sunderer, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Poppy bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 44.7% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.7% win rate overall.
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