Maokai with Jax
How to Synergize Maokai and Jax
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Maokai Jax Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Jax
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Maokai Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jax helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Jax, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Jax does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Jax on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Jax on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Jax does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Jax?
There is no one best synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Jax is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 53.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Jax that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Jax has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be careful when enlisting Jax allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Jax together, you probably will not be granting your team enough attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Jax ally, you should focus on increasing 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 to synergize with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Maokai and Jax synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Jax than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.4% when playing alongside Jax with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Jax with Maokai are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.