Maokai with Vi
How to Synergize Maokai and Vi
based on 3,889 Maokai with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Vi Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Vi
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Maokai Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vi helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Vi, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Vi helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Vi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Vi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vi.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Vi on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Vi does a decent job of covering Maokai during team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Vi
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best champion pairing for Maokai that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Vi is a good teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, she improves their win rate by 2.1% to 54.7%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Maokai and Vi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Vi has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you should be cautious when lining up Vi comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Vi together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Maokai Vi Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to synergize with Vi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Maokai and Vi synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 54.7% helping carry Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.7% winrate overall.
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