Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
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 Corki 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, Corki sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Corki perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Corki is an ally to Maokai, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Maokai provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Corki is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Corki plays with Maokai on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Corki in team fights.
There is no top ally for Corki that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a top-tier ally for Corki. By locking into the same side as Corki, he increases their win rate by 5.1% to 53.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong synergy between Corki 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 Corki. That means Corki players don't need to be careful when finding Maokai teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Corki and Maokai together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Corki in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Corki and Maokai synergy build consist of Muramana, Malignance, and Spear of Shojin. When Corki combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Corki had an average win rate of 53.2% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Corki and Maokai pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.2% winrate overall.
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