Shyvana with Maokai
How to Synergize Shyvana and Maokai
based on 1,769 Shyvana with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Maokai
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana 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 negative change shows that Maokai helps Shyvana perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana is an ally to Maokai, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This may indicate that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Maokai on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Shyvana in teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Maokai
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best companion for Shyvana that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, Maokai is a fantastic ally for Shyvana. By playing on the same team as Shyvana, he improves their win rate by 4.1% to 53.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong bond between Shyvana and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Shyvana players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Shyvana and Maokai together, you may not be granting your side much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Shyvana in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Shyvana and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Shyvana used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 53.2% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Shyvana and Maokai pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Maokai with Shyvana are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.