Maokai with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Maokai and Caitlyn
based on 14,059 Maokai with Caitlyn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Maokai Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Caitlyn helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Caitlyn, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Caitlyn provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Caitlyn
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no one best ally for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Caitlyn is a below average ally for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, she decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 51.5%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Maokai and Caitlyn that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you should be cautious when arranging Caitlyn allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Caitlyn together, you may not be providing your other allies much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to pair well with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Maokai and Caitlyn synergy build include Thornmail, Solstice Sleigh, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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