Maokai with Rumble
How to Synergize Maokai and Rumble
based on 2,393 Maokai with Rumble pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Rumble Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Rumble Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Rumble
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Rumble
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 Rumble Will Play
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Maokai Rumble Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rumble as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rumble helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Rumble, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Rumble does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Rumble on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rumble.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Rumble on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Rumble does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Rumble
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Rumble?
There is no ideal synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Rumble is a very typical ally for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 53.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Maokai and Rumble that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Rumble has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Rumble allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Rumble together, you may not be granting your other allies enough AD. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Rumble ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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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 pair well with Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Maokai and Rumble synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Rumble than with many other common builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 53.0% helping carry Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should take 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 Maokai and Rumble pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Rumble with Maokai are presented for every ranked division. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.