La passiva di Maokai lo rende estremamente resistente al fuoco concentrato delle abilità, finché può usare gli attacchi base su qualcosa.
Cerca di attaccare sui fianchi o sfrutta altre situazioni in cui Presa della natura non può essere evitata o coglie i nemici di sorpresa.
I germogli possono essere lanciati nell'erba alta per ottenere un effetto potenziato, ma non si accumulano bene.
Quando sei in corsia, prova a usare i danni penetranti di Mano della morte per colpire i nemici a distanza di sicurezza.
Visione dell'impero è difficile da mandare a segno di per sé; cerca sulla mappa schermaglie in cui i nemici sono distratti o stanno subendo effetti di controllo per usarla con maggiore facilità.
Se hai problemi a immobilizzare un nemico con Preghiera maledetta, prova a scagliarla agli avversari quando sono vicini ai loro minion, così da farli sorprendere dall'esplosione.
Ascensione demoniaca può rendere Swain molto difficile da uccidere, ma è abbastanza facile da evitare. Prova a comprare oggetti in grado di rallentare gli avversari per tenerli a gittata quando hanno una buona mobilità.
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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Maokai perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Swain, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Swain provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Swain on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Swain is a good companion for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 53.7%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Maokai and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players should be cautious when enlisting Swain allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Swain together, you may not be giving your team a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Maokai to work well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Maokai and Swain synergy build include Egida del Sole, Corazza spinata, and Jak'Sho, il Mutevole. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 53.7% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should take the Scossa di assestamento, Fonte vitale, Preparazione fisica, Crescita eccessiva, Leggenda: Tenacia, and Trionfo runes from the Determinazione and Precisione rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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