Hwei with Maokai
How to Synergize Hwei and Maokai
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Hwei Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Hwei vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hwei and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Hwei with Maokai
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Hwei in LoL
The Hwei Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Hwei sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Hwei perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hwei plays on the same team as Maokai, they observes a little increase in their full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Maokai helps provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Hwei is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Hwei plays with Maokai on the same side, they often takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Hwei in team fights.
Synergies between Hwei and Maokai
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Is Hwei better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Hwei that will no matter what be their ideal teammate. However, Maokai is a great ally for Hwei. By playing on the same team as Hwei, he raises their win rate by 3.9% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a strong bond between Hwei and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Hwei. That means Hwei players don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Hwei players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Hwei and Maokai together, you will not be giving your team much engage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to synergize with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Hwei and Maokai synergy build consist of Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei bought at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Hwei had an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Hwei and Maokai pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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