Bard with Maokai
How to Synergize Bard and Maokai
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Bard Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Bard with Maokai
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Bard perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Maokai, he sees a sizeable uptick in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Maokai helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top champion pairing for Bard that will always be his ideal ally. However, Maokai is a very typical teammate for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Bard and Maokai that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and Maokai together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Bard and Maokai synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.0% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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