Maokai with Twitch
How to Synergize Maokai and Twitch
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Maokai Twitch Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Twitch Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Twitch
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Twitch
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 Twitch Will Play
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
Maokai Twitch Synergy Stats
How to Play with Twitch as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Twitch synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Twitch, 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 Twitch. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Twitch helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Twitch, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Twitch helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Twitch on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Twitch. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Twitch.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Twitch on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Twitch does a poor job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Twitch
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Twitch?
There is no top champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Twitch is a very typical ally for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Maokai and Twitch that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Twitch has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be cautious when enlisting Twitch allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Twitch together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Twitch ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai to pair well with Twitch during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Maokai and Twitch synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Twitch than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 51.9% when playing alongside Twitch with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Twitch with Maokai are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.