Maokai with Hwei
How to Synergize Maokai and Hwei
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Maokai Hwei Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Hwei
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Hwei
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 Hwei Will Play
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
Maokai Hwei Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hwei as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Hwei synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hwei, 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 Hwei. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Hwei helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Hwei, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Hwei provides cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Hwei on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Hwei. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Hwei.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Hwei on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Hwei does a poor job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Hwei?
There is no top champion pairing for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Hwei is a relatively poor ally for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, they drops their win rate by -2.7% to 49.9%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Maokai and Hwei that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Hwei has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be cautious when finding Hwei allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Hwei together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of tankyness. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Hwei ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Hwei during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Maokai and Hwei synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Hwei than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Hwei with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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