Maokai with Ahri
How to Synergize Maokai and Ahri
based on 4,308 Maokai with Ahri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Ahri Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Ahri
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 Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Maokai Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ahri helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Ahri, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Ahri does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Ahri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ahri.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Ahri on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Ahri does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no ideal ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Ahri is a not very good companion for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -1.4% to 51.2%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Ahri that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ahri has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be careful when arranging Ahri allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Ahri together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Ahri ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Maokai and Ahri synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Ahri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing alongside Ahri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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