Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
The Anivia 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, Anivia sees a large worsening in her 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 Anivia perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Anivia is paired with Maokai, she sees a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Anivia plays with Maokai on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Anivia in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Anivia that will always be her top ally. However, overall, Maokai is a decent teammate for Anivia. By locking into the same side as Anivia, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 53.0%. This shows that there is a good bond between Anivia and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Anivia. That means Anivia players don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Anivia and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Anivia in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Anivia and Maokai synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 53.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Maokai with Anivia are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.