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.
Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
The Maokai Tryndamere synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tryndamere, 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 Tryndamere. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tryndamere helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Tryndamere, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Tryndamere does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Tryndamere on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tryndamere. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tryndamere.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Tryndamere on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Tryndamere does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Tryndamere is a below average ally for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 51.4%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Maokai and Tryndamere that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Tryndamere has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be very careful when arranging Tryndamere allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Maokai players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Tryndamere together, you may not be providing your team enough AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Tryndamere ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Tryndamere during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Maokai and Tryndamere synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Tryndamere than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 51.4% helping carry Tryndamere with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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