Maokai with Kindred
How to Synergize Maokai and Kindred
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Maokai Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Maokai Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kindred helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Kindred, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may signal that Kindred does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kindred.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Kindred on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kindred does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Kindred
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no perfect companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Kindred is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, they raises their win rate by 0.7% to 53.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Kindred that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Kindred has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Kindred teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Maokai players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Maokai and Kindred together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Maokai and Kindred synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kindred than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 53.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Maokai and Kindred pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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