Maokai with Karthus
How to Synergize Maokai and Karthus
based on 1,674 Maokai with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Maokai Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karthus helps Maokai perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Karthus, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This may signal that Karthus does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Karthus 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 synergisticly with Karthus.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Karthus on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Karthus
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no top companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Karthus is a terrible ally for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he drops their win rate by -4.4% to 48.2%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Maokai and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Karthus teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your side enough sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you need to 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
To truly master Maokai in order to synergize with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Maokai and Karthus synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Karthus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Maokai and Karthus pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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