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.
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
The Maokai Urgot synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Urgot, 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 Urgot. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Urgot helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Urgot, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Urgot does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Urgot on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Urgot. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Urgot.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Urgot on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Urgot does a decent job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Urgot is a pretty good ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 54.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Maokai and Urgot that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Urgot has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be cautious when lining up Urgot allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Urgot together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Urgot teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to work well with Urgot during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Maokai and Urgot synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Urgot than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 54.5% when playing alongside Urgot with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Maokai and Urgot pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.5% win rate overall.
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