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.
The Maokai Rell synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rell, 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 Rell. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rell helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Rell, he sees a great improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Rell provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Rell on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rell. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rell.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Rell on the same team, he typically takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Rell does a poor job of covering Maokai in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Maokai that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Rell is a terrible teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, she lowers their win rate by -6.6% to 46.0%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Maokai and Rell that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Rell has a much lower diffuclty than Maokai. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Rell comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Maokai players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Maokai and Rell together, you will not be providing your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Rell teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Maokai in order to synergize with Rell during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Maokai and Rell synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Rell than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 46.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rell with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% win rate overall.
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