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.
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
The Maokai Sivir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sivir, 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 Sivir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sivir helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Sivir, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Sivir helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Sivir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sivir.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Sivir on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Sivir does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Sivir is a relatively poor teammate for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -2.2% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Maokai and Sivir that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sivir has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be careful when lining up Sivir teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Maokai players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Maokai and Sivir together, you may not be granting your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Sivir ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to synergize with Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Maokai and Sivir synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Sivir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sivir with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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