If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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 Evelynn 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, Evelynn 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 fall shows that Maokai helps Evelynn perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Evelynn tries to synergize with Maokai, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change could signal that Maokai helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Evelynn is played 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 with Maokai.
Moreover, when Evelynn plays with Maokai on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Evelynn in team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Evelynn that will always be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a decent teammate for Evelynn. By being on the same side as Evelynn, he improves their win rate by 2.8% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Evelynn and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Evelynn. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Evelynn players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Evelynn and Maokai together, you may not be granting your side enough attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Evelynn in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Evelynn and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Stormsurge. When Evelynn incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Evelynn had an average win rate of 52.2% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Evelynn players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Maokai with Evelynn are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.