Alistar with Maokai
How to Synergize Alistar and Maokai
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Alistar Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Maokai
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Maokai, he sees a sizeable uptick in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Maokai provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Maokai on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Maokai
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect companion for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Maokai is a very bad teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 46.0%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Alistar and Maokai that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Maokai teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Alistar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Alistar and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Alistar to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Alistar and Maokai synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 46.0% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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