Janna with Maokai
How to Synergize Janna and Maokai
based on 1,137 Janna with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Janna Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Janna vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Janna and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Janna with Maokai
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Janna in LoL
The Janna 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, Janna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Janna perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Janna tries to synergize with Maokai, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Janna plays with Maokai on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Janna during teamfights.
Synergies between Janna and Maokai
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Is Janna better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top ally for Janna that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Maokai is a very typical companion for Janna. By playing on the same team as Janna, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 51.3%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Janna and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Janna. That means Janna players don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Janna players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Janna and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Janna to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Janna and Maokai synergy build consist of Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna and Maokai pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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