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.
Melee allies can stack Frost for your Permafrost, keep an eye on who they are attacking.
Save Glacial Prison for encounters where you have teammates present to take advantage of it.
Use Arctic Assault to escape bad situations, interupt channeled spells or chase runners.
The Maokai Sejuani synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sejuani, 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 Sejuani. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sejuani helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Sejuani, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may signal that Sejuani doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Sejuani on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sejuani. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sejuani.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Sejuani on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Sejuani does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Maokai that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Sejuani is a very bad ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, she decreases their win rate by -4.6% to 48.0%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Maokai and Sejuani that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sejuani has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players should be cautious when finding Sejuani comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Sejuani together, you will not be granting your team enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Sejuani ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Maokai in order to work well with Sejuani during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Maokai and Sejuani synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Sejuani than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sejuani with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Maokai and Sejuani pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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