Vayne with Maokai
How to Synergize Vayne and Maokai
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Vayne Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vayne and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Vayne with Maokai
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Vayne in LoL
The Vayne 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, Vayne sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Vayne perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vayne is an ally to Maokai, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change may signal that Maokai provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vayne is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Vayne plays with Maokai on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Vayne during teamfights.
Synergies between Vayne and Maokai
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Is Vayne better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Vayne that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a decent ally for Vayne. By being on the same team as Vayne, he raises their win rate by 2.7% to 53.0%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Vayne and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Vayne. That means Vayne players don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Vayne players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Vayne and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other allies enough magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vayne in order to synergize with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Vayne and Maokai synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Vayne used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 53.0% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Vayne players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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