Maokai with Anivia
How to Synergize Maokai and Anivia
based on 2,039 Maokai with Anivia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Anivia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Anivia
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Anivia
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 Anivia Will Play
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Maokai Anivia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Anivia as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 Anivia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Anivia helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Anivia, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may indicate that Anivia helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Anivia 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 Anivia.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Anivia on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Anivia does a poor job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Anivia
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Anivia?
There is no one best synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Anivia is a very typical ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she improves their win rate by 0.4% to 53.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Maokai and Anivia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Anivia has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you should be careful when lining up Anivia allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Maokai players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Anivia together, you may not be granting your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai and Anivia synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Anivia than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 53.0% when playing alongside Anivia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
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