Graves with Maokai
How to Synergize Graves and Maokai
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Graves Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Graves with Maokai
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Graves perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Maokai, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Maokai on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a superb companion for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he raises their win rate by 4.1% to 54.6%. This signals that there is a strong strategic relationship between Graves and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be very careful when arranging Maokai allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Graves and Maokai together, you will not be granting your team much AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Graves and Maokai synergy build include Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 54.6% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Graves and Maokai pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% winrate overall.
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