Galio with Maokai
How to Synergize Galio and Maokai
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Galio Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Galio with Maokai
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Galio perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio tries to synergize with Maokai, he sees a noticable increase in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Maokai provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Galio plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Galio during team fights.
Synergies between Galio and Maokai
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Is Galio better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Galio that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Galio. By playing on the same side as Galio, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 52.8%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Galio and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Galio and Maokai together, you may not be providing your side very much AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Galio to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Galio and Maokai synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Galio bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Galio had an average winrate of 52.8% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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