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 Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Fiddlesticks perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Fiddlesticks plays on the same team as Maokai, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Fiddlesticks plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Fiddlesticks during team fights.
There is no top ally for Fiddlesticks that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Maokai is a decent companion for Fiddlesticks. By playing on the same team as Fiddlesticks, he increases their win rate by 2.5% to 51.5%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Fiddlesticks and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Fiddlesticks. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Fiddlesticks players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Fiddlesticks and Maokai together, you will not be providing your side very much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fiddlesticks to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Fiddlesticks and Maokai synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Fiddlesticks and Maokai pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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