Maokai with Viktor
How to Synergize Maokai and Viktor
based on 2,210 Maokai with Viktor pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Viktor Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Maokai Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Viktor helps Maokai perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai plays on the same team as Viktor, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Viktor does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Viktor on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Viktor. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Viktor.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Viktor on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Viktor does a poor job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Viktor
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Viktor is a good teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 53.9%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Maokai and Viktor that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Viktor has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be very careful when lining up Viktor comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Maokai and Viktor together, you will not be granting your side much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Viktor ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Maokai and Viktor synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Viktor than with many other common item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when playing alongside Viktor with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.9% win rate overall.
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