Maokai with Sylas
How to Synergize Maokai and Sylas
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Maokai Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Maokai Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sylas helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Sylas, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Sylas doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Sylas on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Sylas
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no one best ally for Maokai that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Maokai and Sylas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be very careful when arranging Sylas comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Sylas together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Maokai and Sylas synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Sylas than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 sets players chose for Maokai and Sylas pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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