Maokai with Vladimir
How to Synergize Maokai and Vladimir
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Maokai Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Maokai Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vladimir helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Vladimir, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Vladimir 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 Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vladimir.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Vladimir on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Vladimir
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no top synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Vladimir is a decent companion for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he improves their win rate by 1.5% to 54.1%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Maokai and Vladimir that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Vladimir has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Vladimir allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Maokai players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Maokai and Vladimir together, you will not be providing your team a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai to pair well with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Maokai and Vladimir synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 54.1% helping carry Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Maokai players should take 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 rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
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