Maokai with Rengar
How to Synergize Maokai and Rengar
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Maokai Rengar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Rengar
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Rengar
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 Rengar Will Play
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
Maokai Rengar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rengar as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Rengar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rengar, 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 Rengar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rengar helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Rengar, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Rengar does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Rengar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rengar.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Rengar on the same side, he often receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rengar does a decent job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Rengar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Rengar is a very typical companion for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Rengar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Rengar has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be cautious when lining up Rengar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Maokai and Rengar together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Rengar ally's skill level, 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Rengar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Maokai and Rengar synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Rengar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rengar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should use 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 players chose for Maokai and Rengar pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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