Maokai with Wukong
How to Synergize Maokai and Wukong
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Maokai Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Maokai Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Wukong helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Wukong, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Wukong provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Wukong 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 with Wukong.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Wukong on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Wukong does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Wukong
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no one best ally for Maokai that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Wukong is a very typical companion for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Maokai and Wukong that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Wukong has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Wukong teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Wukong together, you will not be granting your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 in order to pair well with Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Maokai and Wukong synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Wukong than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.7% when playing alongside Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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