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.
Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
The Maokai Dr. Mundo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Dr. Mundo, 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 Dr. Mundo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Dr. Mundo helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Dr. Mundo, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Dr. Mundo does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Dr. Mundo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Dr. Mundo. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Dr. Mundo.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Dr. Mundo on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Dr. Mundo does a decent job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
There is no top synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Dr. Mundo is a decent companion for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 54.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Maokai and Dr. Mundo that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Dr. Mundo has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be careful when finding Dr. Mundo comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Dr. Mundo together, you probably will not be giving your team enough sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Dr. Mundo ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Dr. Mundo during both the early game 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 tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Maokai and Dr. Mundo synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Dr. Mundo than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 54.0% when playing alongside Dr. Mundo with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating 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 builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.0% winrate overall.
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