Jarvan IV with Maokai
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Maokai
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Jarvan IV Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Maokai
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize 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.
Jarvan IV Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his 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 Jarvan IV perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jarvan IV is paired with Maokai, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Maokai provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Jarvan IV plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Jarvan IV during teamfights.
Synergies between Jarvan IV and Maokai
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top ally for Jarvan IV that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Maokai is a very typical teammate for Jarvan IV. By being on the same side as Jarvan IV, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Jarvan IV and Maokai that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means Jarvan IV players don't need to be careful when enlisting Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Jarvan IV players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Jarvan IV and Maokai together, you may not be giving your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Jarvan IV to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, 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 most important finished items to have in your Jarvan IV and Maokai synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Jarvan IV had an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Jarvan IV players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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