Maokai with Graves
How to Synergize Maokai and Graves
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Maokai Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Graves
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Maokai Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Graves, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Graves does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Graves on the same team, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Graves is a good ally for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 2.0% to 54.6%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Maokai and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Graves allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Graves together, you will not be granting your other teammates much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Graves 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 should do well, regardless.
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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 work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Maokai and Graves synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 54.6% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.6% winrate overall.
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