Volibear with Maokai
How to Synergize Volibear and Maokai
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Volibear Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear 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.
Volibear Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Volibear perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Volibear is paired with Maokai, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Volibear in teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Maokai
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Volibear that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Volibear. By playing on the same side as Volibear, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 50.7%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Volibear and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Volibear. That means Volibear players don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Volibear and Maokai together, you may not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold 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 Volibear in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Volibear and Maokai synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Volibear players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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