Vladimir with Maokai
How to Synergize Vladimir and Maokai
based on 4,511 Vladimir with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Maokai
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Vladimir perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir is an ally to Maokai, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Maokai helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Vladimir plays with Maokai on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Vladimir in team fights.
Synergies between Vladimir and Maokai
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal companion for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a fantastic ally for Vladimir. By locking into the same team as Vladimir, he raises their win rate by 4.1% to 54.1%. This demonstrates that there is a strong strategic relationship between Vladimir and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Vladimir. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Vladimir and Maokai together, you will not be granting your side a lot of AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vladimir to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Vladimir and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Cosmic Drive. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 54.1% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vladimir and Maokai pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.1% winrate overall.
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