Caitlyn with Maokai
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Maokai
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Caitlyn Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Maokai
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn 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 decrease shows that Maokai helps Caitlyn perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Maokai, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Maokai helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played together with Maokai on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Maokai on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Caitlyn in team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Maokai is a good teammate for Caitlyn. By playing on the same side as Caitlyn, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Caitlyn and Maokai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Caitlyn players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Caitlyn and Maokai together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Caitlyn and Maokai synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Caitlyn combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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