La compétence passive de Maokai le rend extrêmement endurant contre les barrages de sorts, mais seulement s'il peut placer des attaques de base.
Essayez d'attaquer par le flanc ou de manière à ce qu'Emprise de la nature soit impossible à esquiver, ou prenez les ennemis par surprise.
Les arbrisseaux peuvent être lancés dans les hautes herbes pour renforcer leur effet, mais ils ne s'empilent pas.
Sur votre voie, utilisez la perforation de Poigne mortifère pour blesser les adversaires sans risque.
Œil de l'empire est difficile à utiliser. Attendez qu'une escarmouche éclate à un endroit de la carte, puis lancez Œil de l'empire pendant que les ennemis sont distraits ou entravés.
Si vous avez du mal à immobiliser un adversaire avec Capture, essayez de la lancer sur vos ennemis quand ils sont près de leurs sbires, pour que l'explosion les surprenne.
Incarnation démoniaque rend Swain très difficile à tuer, mais les ennemis peuvent facilement s'en éloigner. Achetez des objets pouvant les ralentir si leur mobilité est trop importante.
The Maokai Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Maokai sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Swain supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Swain on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Maokai that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Swain is a decent ally for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 53.7%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Maokai and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Swain together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Maokai to pair well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Maokai and Swain synergy build consist of Égide solaire, Cotte épineuse, and Jak'Sho, le Protéiforme. When Maokai combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 53.7% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Après-coup, Fontaine de vie, Conditionnement, Surcroissance, Légende : ténacité, and Triomphe runes from the Volonté and Précision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Maokai and Swain pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% win rate overall.
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