Maokai with Riven
How to Synergize Maokai and Riven
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Maokai Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Riven
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Maokai Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Riven, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Riven does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Riven 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 with Riven.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Riven on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Riven
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 52.8%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Maokai and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you should be careful when lining up Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Maokai and Riven together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Maokai and Riven synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.8% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Maokai and Riven pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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