Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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 Elise 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, Elise sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Elise perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Elise tries to synergize with Maokai, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Elise is played with 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 with Maokai.
Moreover, when Elise plays with Maokai on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Elise in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Elise that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Elise. By being on the same team as Elise, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 49.4%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Elise and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Elise. That means Elise players don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Elise players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Elise and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Elise in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Elise and Maokai synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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