Maokai with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Maokai and Kai'Sa
based on 6,652 Maokai with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Maokai Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kai'Sa helps Maokai perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kai'Sa. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a decent job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Kai'Sa
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a below average teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -2.9% to 49.7%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Maokai and Kai'Sa that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when arranging Kai'Sa allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Kai'Sa together, you may not be granting your team very much utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai to work well with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Maokai and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing 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 combinations that we analyzed for Maokai and Kai'Sa pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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