Syndra with Maokai
How to Synergize Syndra and Maokai
based on 3,432 Syndra with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Syndra Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Syndra vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Syndra and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Syndra with Maokai
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Syndra in LoL
The Syndra 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, Syndra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Syndra perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Syndra tries to synergize with Maokai, she sees a little increase in her total damage output. This change may signal that Maokai provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Syndra is played alongside Maokai on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Syndra plays with Maokai on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Syndra in team fights.
Synergies between Syndra and Maokai
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Is Syndra better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best companion for Syndra that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical ally for Syndra. By locking into the same side as Syndra, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Syndra and Maokai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Syndra. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Syndra players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Syndra and Maokai together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Syndra and Maokai synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Shadowflame. When Syndra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Syndra players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Syndra and Maokai pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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