Maokai with Janna
How to Synergize Maokai and Janna
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Maokai Janna Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Janna
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Maokai Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Janna helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Janna, he observes a great improvement in his total damage output. This change may signal that Janna helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Janna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Janna.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Janna on the same team, he typically takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Janna does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Janna
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Janna?
There is no top synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Janna is a relatively poor teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, she decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Maokai and Janna that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Janna has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be very careful when arranging Janna comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Janna together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Janna ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to pair well with Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Maokai and Janna synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Hollow Radiance. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Janna than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Janna with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Maokai and Janna pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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