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.
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
The Maokai Morgana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Morgana, 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 Morgana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Morgana helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Morgana, he observes a great improvement in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Morgana helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Morgana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Morgana.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Morgana on the same side, he often takes significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Morgana does a poor job of covering Maokai during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Morgana is a very typical companion for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 52.0%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Maokai and Morgana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Morgana has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players don't need to be careful when enlisting Morgana allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Morgana together, you may not be giving your side a lot of attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Morgana ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Morgana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Maokai and Morgana synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Morgana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Morgana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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