Kassadin with Maokai
How to Synergize Kassadin and Maokai
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Kassadin Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Maokai
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Kassadin perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin tries to synergize with Maokai, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Kassadin in teamfights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Maokai
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect ally for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Maokai is a great teammate for Kassadin. By locking into the same side as Kassadin, he improves their win rate by 3.5% to 53.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong synergy between Kassadin and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be careful when enlisting Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Kassadin players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kassadin and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Kassadin and Maokai synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kassadin included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kassadin and Maokai pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.5% winrate overall.
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