Maokai with Yone
How to Synergize Maokai and Yone
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Maokai Yone Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Yone Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Yone
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Yone
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.
Maokai Yone Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yone as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Yone synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yone, 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 Yone. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yone helps Maokai perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Yone, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Yone does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Yone on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Yone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yone.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Yone on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yone does a decent job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Yone?
There is no perfect synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Yone is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 52.4%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Maokai and Yone that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Yone has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players should be very careful when arranging Yone allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Yone together, you may not be giving your team much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Yone ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to work well with Yone during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Maokai and Yone synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Yone than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.4% helping carry Yone with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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