Maokai with Vayne
How to Synergize Maokai and Vayne
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Maokai Vayne Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Vayne
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Vayne
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 Vayne Will Play
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Maokai Vayne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vayne as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vayne helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Vayne, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Vayne doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Vayne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vayne.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Vayne on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Vayne does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Vayne
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Vayne?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Maokai that will always be his top teammate. However, Vayne is a very typical companion for Maokai. By locking into the same side as Maokai, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 53.0%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Maokai and Vayne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vayne has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be careful when finding Vayne comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Maokai players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Maokai and Vayne together, you may not be granting your side enough magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vayne ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Vayne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Maokai and Vayne synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Vayne than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 53.0% when playing alongside Vayne with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Maokai players 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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