Maokai with Annie
How to Synergize Maokai and Annie
based on 2,250 Maokai with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Annie
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Maokai Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Annie helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Annie, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Annie supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Annie 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 Annie.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Annie on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Annie does a poor job of covering Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Annie?
There is no one best synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Annie is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, she improves their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Maokai and Annie that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be very careful when enlisting Annie allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Maokai players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Annie together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 work well with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Maokai and Annie synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Annie than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when playing alongside Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Maokai players 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 players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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