Maokai with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Maokai and Heimerdinger
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Maokai Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Maokai Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Heimerdinger helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Heimerdinger, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Heimerdinger supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Heimerdinger 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 Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Heimerdinger
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Heimerdinger is a relatively poor ally for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Maokai and Heimerdinger that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be careful when finding Heimerdinger comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Maokai players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Heimerdinger together, you will not be giving your team a lot of attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai in order to work well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Maokai and Heimerdinger synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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