Maokai with Aphelios
How to Synergize Maokai and Aphelios
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Maokai Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Maokai Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Aphelios, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Aphelios 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 synergisticly with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Aphelios on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Aphelios is a relatively poor ally for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Maokai and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Maokai and Aphelios synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 50.0% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Aphelios with Maokai are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.