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 Senna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Senna, 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 Senna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Senna helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Senna, he observes a clear improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Senna provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Senna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Senna.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Senna on the same side, he on average receives significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Senna does a poor job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Senna is a fantastic teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she improves their win rate by 3.1% to 55.7%. This proves that there is a very real bond between Maokai and Senna that results in them performing better together than alone.
Senna has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be very careful when lining up Senna comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Maokai players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Senna together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Senna teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to work well with Senna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Maokai and Senna synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Senna than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 55.7% helping carry Senna with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you 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 combinations players picked for Maokai and Senna pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.7% winrate overall.
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