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.
The Seraphine 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, Seraphine sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Seraphine perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Seraphine is paired with Maokai, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Seraphine is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Seraphine plays with Maokai on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Seraphine in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Seraphine that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a good teammate for Seraphine. By being on the same side as Seraphine, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Seraphine and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a greater difficulty than Seraphine. That means Seraphine players should be careful when lining up Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Seraphine players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Seraphine and Maokai together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Seraphine in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Seraphine and Maokai synergy build consist of Moonstone Renewer, Ardent Censer, and Shard of True Ice. When Seraphine used at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Seraphine had an average win rate of 52.5% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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