Rakan with Maokai
How to Synergize Rakan and Maokai
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Rakan Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Maokai
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a large worsening in his 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 Rakan perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is paired with Maokai, he observes a noticable increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Maokai on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Rakan in teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Maokai
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical ally for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 50.0%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Rakan and Maokai that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Rakan and Maokai synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 50.0% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Rakan and Maokai pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Maokai with Rakan are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu above.