Ziggs with Maokai
How to Synergize Ziggs and Maokai
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Ziggs Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Maokai
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs 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 negative change shows that Maokai helps Ziggs perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ziggs is an ally to Maokai, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Ziggs plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Ziggs during team fights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Maokai
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top ally for Ziggs that will always be his #1 ally. However, Maokai is a top-tier teammate for Ziggs. By being on the same team as Ziggs, he improves their win rate by 3.7% to 51.8%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Ziggs and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Ziggs. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Ziggs players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Ziggs and Maokai together, you will not be granting your side enough AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ziggs in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Ziggs and Maokai synergy build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Ziggs players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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