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.
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
The Maokai Ezreal synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ezreal, 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 Ezreal. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ezreal helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Ezreal, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Ezreal supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Ezreal on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ezreal.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Ezreal on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Ezreal does a poor job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Ezreal is a not very good teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 49.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Maokai and Ezreal that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Ezreal has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be cautious when arranging Ezreal comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Ezreal together, you will not be giving your team very much utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Ezreal ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Ezreal during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Maokai and Ezreal synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Ezreal than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 49.8% helping carry Ezreal with these items in his kit.
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, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Ezreal with Maokai are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.