Maokai with Sett
How to Synergize Maokai and Sett
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Maokai Sett Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Sett Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Sett
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Sett
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.
Maokai Sett Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sett as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Sett synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sett, 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 Sett. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sett helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Sett, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Sett does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Sett 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 alongside Sett.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Sett on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Sett does a decent job of protecting Maokai during teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Sett?
There is no top ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Sett is a decent companion for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 54.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Maokai and Sett that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Sett has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Sett allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Maokai and Sett together, you will not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Sett ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Maokai to pair well with Sett during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Maokai and Sett synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Sett than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 54.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sett with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should use 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Sett with Maokai are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.