Maokai with Akali
How to Synergize Maokai and Akali
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Maokai Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Akali
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Akali
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 Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Maokai Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akali helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Akali, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Akali does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Akali on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Akali is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 51.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Maokai and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be very careful when arranging Akali allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Akali together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Maokai and Akali synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Thornmail. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 51.9% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Maokai and Akali pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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