Maokai with Aatrox
How to Synergize Maokai and Aatrox
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Maokai Aatrox Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Aatrox
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.
Advice to Understand How Aatrox Will Play
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Maokai Aatrox Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aatrox as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Maokai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aatrox helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Aatrox, he gets a moderate decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Aatrox does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aatrox.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Aatrox on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Aatrox does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Aatrox
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Aatrox?
There is no perfect ally for Maokai that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Aatrox is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Maokai and Aatrox that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Aatrox has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players should be careful when finding Aatrox teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Maokai and Aatrox together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Maokai in order to work well with Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Maokai and Aatrox synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Aatrox than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.7% helping carry Aatrox with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Maokai and Aatrox pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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