Sona with Maokai
How to Synergize Sona and Maokai
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Sona Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Sona with Maokai
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
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.
Sona Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Sona in LoL
The Sona 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, Sona sees a very large drop 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 Sona perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Maokai, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Maokai helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Maokai on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
Synergies between Sona and Maokai
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Is Sona better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect synergy for Sona that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical teammate for Sona. By locking into the same team as Sona, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Sona and Maokai that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Sona. 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 relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Sona players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Sona and Maokai together, you may not be providing your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sona in order to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Sona and Maokai synergy build consist of Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sona boasted an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Sona and Maokai pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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