Ryze with Maokai
How to Synergize Ryze and Maokai
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Ryze Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Maokai
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze 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, Ryze sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Ryze perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze tries to synergize with Maokai, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Maokai provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played together 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 with Maokai.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Ryze during team fights.
Synergies between Ryze and Maokai
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top ally for Ryze that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Maokai is a fantastic companion for Ryze. By locking into the same team as Ryze, he improves their win rate by 3.7% to 52.7%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Ryze and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Ryze. That means Ryze players don't need to be cautious when lining up Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Ryze players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Ryze and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ryze to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Ryze and Maokai synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ryze boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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