Maokai with Fiddlesticks
How to Synergize Maokai and Fiddlesticks
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Maokai Fiddlesticks Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Fiddlesticks
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Fiddlesticks
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.
Maokai Fiddlesticks Synergy Stats
How to Play with Fiddlesticks as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Fiddlesticks synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fiddlesticks, 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 Fiddlesticks. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Fiddlesticks helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Fiddlesticks, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Fiddlesticks does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Fiddlesticks on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Fiddlesticks.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Fiddlesticks on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Fiddlesticks does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Fiddlesticks?
There is no one best champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Fiddlesticks is a relatively poor teammate for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 51.5%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Maokai and Fiddlesticks that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Fiddlesticks has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players should be careful when enlisting Fiddlesticks allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Fiddlesticks together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Fiddlesticks ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai to work well with Fiddlesticks during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Maokai and Fiddlesticks synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Fiddlesticks than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Fiddlesticks with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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