Kalista with Maokai
How to Synergize Kalista and Maokai
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Kalista Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Maokai
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Kalista perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Maokai, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista 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 alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Maokai on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Kalista in teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Maokai
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best ally for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Maokai is a fantastic ally for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, he increases their win rate by 4.3% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Kalista and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kalista players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kalista and Maokai together, you will not be giving your side much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Kalista and Maokai synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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