Talon with Maokai
How to Synergize Talon and Maokai
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Talon Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Talon with Maokai
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Talon in LoL
The Talon 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, Talon sees a very large drop in his 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 Talon perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon tries to synergize with Maokai, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Talon plays with Maokai on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Talon during team fights.
Synergies between Talon and Maokai
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Is Talon better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal synergy for Talon that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a decent teammate for Talon. By being on the same side as Talon, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 51.0%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Talon and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Talon. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Talon players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Talon and Maokai together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Talon to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Talon and Maokai synergy build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Talon used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Talon boasted an average win rate of 51.0% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Talon players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Maokai with Talon are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.