Maokai with Nidalee
How to Synergize Maokai and Nidalee
based on 884 Maokai with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Maokai Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nidalee helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Nidalee, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Nidalee does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Nidalee on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Nidalee
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no top companion for Maokai that will always be his best teammate. However, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -4.9% to 47.7%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Maokai and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when lining up Nidalee comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Maokai players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Nidalee together, you will not be giving your team enough AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai to pair well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Maokai and Nidalee synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for Maokai and Nidalee pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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