Zeri with Maokai
How to Synergize Zeri and Maokai
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Zeri Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Zeri vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zeri 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.
Zeri Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Zeri in LoL
The Zeri 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, Zeri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Zeri perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zeri tries to synergize with Maokai, they gets a small increase in their complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zeri is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Zeri plays with Maokai on the same side, they on average takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Zeri in teamfights.
Synergies between Zeri and Maokai
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Is Zeri better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Zeri that will always be their best synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical companion for Zeri. By locking into the same side as Zeri, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Zeri and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Zeri. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Zeri and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Zeri in order to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Zeri and Maokai synergy build include Bloodthirster, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri included at least these three great items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Zeri boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Zeri players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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