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.
Teemo's mushrooms can be used to farm creep waves very effectively.
Place your mushrooms at key locations on the map, such as by the Dragon or Baron Nashor, to reveal when your enemies might be attempting to kill them.
The Maokai Teemo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Teemo, 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 Teemo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Teemo helps Maokai perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Teemo, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Teemo provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Teemo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Teemo.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Teemo on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Teemo does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Teemo is a pretty good ally for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 54.7%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Maokai and Teemo that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Teemo has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Teemo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Teemo together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Teemo teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Maokai to synergize with Teemo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Maokai and Teemo synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Abyssal Mask. When Maokai included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Teemo than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 54.7% when playing alongside Teemo with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.7% winrate overall.
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