Maokai with Katarina
How to Synergize Maokai and Katarina
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Maokai Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Maokai Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Katarina, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Katarina does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Katarina
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Katarina is a below average ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 51.1%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Maokai and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you need to be careful when finding Katarina teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Maokai and Katarina together, you may not be providing your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Maokai and Katarina synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Maokai and Katarina pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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