Irelia with Maokai
How to Synergize Irelia and Maokai
based on 3,958 Irelia with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Maokai
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Irelia perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Maokai, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Maokai on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Irelia in team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Maokai
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Maokai is a great companion for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, he improves their win rate by 3.0% to 52.8%. This shows that there is a strong bond between Irelia and Maokai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be careful when finding Maokai comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Irelia players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Irelia and Maokai together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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
To truly master Irelia to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Irelia and Maokai synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 52.8% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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