Kai'Sa with Maokai
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Maokai
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Kai'Sa Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Maokai
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa 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 negative change shows that Maokai helps Kai'Sa perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa is an ally to Maokai, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Maokai provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside Maokai on the same side, 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 alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Maokai on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Kai'Sa in team fights.
Synergies between Kai'Sa and Maokai
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top ally for Kai'Sa that will always be her top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a superb ally for Kai'Sa. By playing on the same side as Kai'Sa, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong bond between Kai'Sa and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Kai'Sa. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai allies 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 work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Kai'Sa and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Kai'Sa to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Kai'Sa and Maokai synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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