Maokai with Swain
How to Synergize Maokai and Swain
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Maokai Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Swain
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Maokai Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Swain, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Swain helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Swain on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of covering Maokai during teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Swain
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect companion for Maokai that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Swain is a decent ally for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 53.7%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Maokai and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players should be careful when enlisting Swain teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Maokai and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Maokai and Swain synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 53.7% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should equip 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 mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.7% win rate overall.
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