Maokai with Akshan
How to Synergize Maokai and Akshan
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Maokai Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Maokai Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 Akshan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akshan helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Akshan, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Akshan helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Akshan 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 Akshan.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Akshan on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Akshan
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Akshan is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, they improves their win rate by 0.5% to 53.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Akshan that results in them performing better together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Maokai. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Akshan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Akshan together, you will not be providing your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Akshan ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai in order to work well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Maokai and Akshan synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Akshan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 53.1% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.1% win rate overall.
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