Maokai with Poppy
How to Synergize Maokai and Poppy
based on 1,866 Maokai with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Poppy Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Maokai Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Maokai Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Poppy, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Poppy helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Poppy on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Poppy does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Poppy
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Maokai better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Poppy is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Maokai and Poppy that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you should be careful when lining up Poppy teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Poppy together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Maokai
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Maokai Players
How We Calculated Our Maokai Poppy Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Maokai and Poppy synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Poppy than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Poppy with Maokai are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu above.