Xerath with Maokai
How to Synergize Xerath and Maokai
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Xerath Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Maokai
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Xerath perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath plays on the same team as Maokai, he sees a clear improvement in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Maokai helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Xerath in team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Maokai
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Xerath that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Maokai is a decent teammate for Xerath. By being on the same side as Xerath, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 52.8%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Xerath and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Maokai teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Xerath players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Xerath and Maokai together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xerath in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Xerath and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Xerath players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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