K'Sante with Maokai
How to Synergize K'Sante and Maokai
based on 2,215 K'Sante with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
K'Sante Maokai Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Maokai
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Maokai
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps K'Sante perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When K'Sante tries to synergize with Maokai, they observes a small increase in their total damage output. This change could indicate that Maokai helps provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Maokai on the same side, they on average receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting K'Sante in team fights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Maokai
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best ally for K'Sante that will 100% of the time be their top teammate. However, Maokai is a good ally for K'Sante. By locking into the same team as K'Sante, he improves their win rate by 2.9% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between K'Sante and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means K'Sante players don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, K'Sante players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning K'Sante and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your K'Sante and Maokai synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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