Maokai with Soraka
How to Synergize Maokai and Soraka
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Maokai Soraka Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Maokai Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Soraka helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Soraka, he sees a very large increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Soraka supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Soraka 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 with Soraka.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Soraka on the same side, he usually takes significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Soraka
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Soraka is a not very good companion for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 50.7%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Maokai and Soraka that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Maokai. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Soraka allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Soraka together, you will not be providing your other allies enough AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Maokai and Soraka synergy build include Thornmail, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Soraka than with many other typical builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Maokai and Soraka pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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