Maokai with Azir
How to Synergize Maokai and Azir
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Maokai Azir Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Azir
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Azir
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 Azir Will Play
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Maokai Azir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Azir as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 Azir. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Azir helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Azir, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Azir does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Azir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Azir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Azir.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Azir on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Azir does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Azir
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Azir?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Azir is a very typical companion for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 53.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Maokai and Azir that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be cautious when finding Azir teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Azir together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Azir ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to pair well with Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Maokai and Azir synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Azir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 53.1% helping carry Azir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should take 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 combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.1% win rate overall.
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