Zoe with Maokai
How to Synergize Zoe and Maokai
based on 1,654 Zoe with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zoe Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Zoe vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zoe and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Zoe with Maokai
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Zoe in LoL
The Zoe Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zoe sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Zoe perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zoe is paired with Maokai, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Zoe plays with Maokai on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Zoe during teamfights.
Synergies between Zoe and Maokai
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Is Zoe better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect ally for Zoe that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Maokai is a decent ally for Zoe. By locking into the same team as Zoe, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 49.3%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Zoe and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Zoe. That means Zoe players don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Zoe and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zoe in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Zoe and Maokai synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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