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.
Milio's dash speeds increase with his movement speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Milio requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
The Maokai Milio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Milio, 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 Milio. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Milio helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Milio, he sees a very large increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Milio helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Milio 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 Milio.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Milio on the same team, he usually receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Milio does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Milio is a not very good companion for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, they decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 50.9%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Maokai and Milio that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Milio has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be very careful when arranging Milio comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Maokai players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Milio together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Milio teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Maokai to pair well with Milio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Maokai and Milio synergy build consist of Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Milio than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 50.9% when playing alongside Milio with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Maokai players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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