Viego with Maokai
How to Synergize Viego and Maokai
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Viego Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Viego vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viego and Maokai
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.
Viego Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Viego in LoL
The Viego Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Viego sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Viego perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viego is paired with Maokai, they sees a marginal improvement in their complete damage output. This could signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Viego is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Viego plays with Maokai on the same side, they usually receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Viego during teamfights.
Synergies between Viego and Maokai
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Is Viego better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal synergy for Viego that will no matter what be their best synergy. However, Maokai is a good companion for Viego. By locking into the same side as Viego, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 52.5%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Viego and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Viego. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Viego and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your side enough magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Viego in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Viego and Maokai synergy build include Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and Kraken Slayer. When Viego used at least these three items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Viego boasted an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Viego players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Viego and Maokai pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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