Kha'Zix with Maokai
How to Synergize Kha'Zix and Maokai
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Kha'Zix Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kha'Zix and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix with Maokai
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kha'Zix in LoL
The Kha'Zix 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, Kha'Zix 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 drop shows that Maokai helps Kha'Zix perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kha'Zix plays on the same team as Maokai, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kha'Zix is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Kha'Zix plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Kha'Zix in team fights.
Synergies between Kha'Zix and Maokai
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Is Kha'Zix better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top champion pairing for Kha'Zix that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a great ally for Kha'Zix. By playing on the same side as Kha'Zix, he raises their win rate by 4.7% to 53.9%. This shows that there is a strong synergy between Kha'Zix and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Kha'Zix. That means Kha'Zix players don't need to be careful when enlisting Maokai teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Kha'Zix players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Kha'Zix and Maokai together, you may not be giving your other teammates much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Kha'Zix in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Kha'Zix and Maokai synergy build include Guardian Angel, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Kha'Zix bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kha'Zix had an average win rate of 53.9% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.9% winrate overall.
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