Maokai with Elise
How to Synergize Maokai and Elise
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Maokai Elise Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Elise
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Elise
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 Elise Will Play
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Maokai Elise Synergy Stats
How to Play with Elise as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Elise helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Elise, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Elise does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Elise on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Elise. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Elise.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Elise on the same team, he typically takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Elise does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Elise
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Elise?
There is no one best synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Elise is a very bad ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -3.2% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Elise that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Elise has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be cautious when enlisting Elise comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Maokai players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Elise together, you will not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Elise ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 synergize with Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Maokai and Elise synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Elise than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should use 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 players picked for Maokai and Elise pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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