Maokai with Yorick
How to Synergize Maokai and Yorick
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Maokai Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Maokai Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yorick helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Yorick, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Yorick doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Yorick 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 synergisticly with Yorick.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Yorick on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Yorick
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no perfect ally for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Yorick is a pretty good ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 53.9%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good synergy between Maokai and Yorick that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players should be cautious when finding Yorick allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Maokai and Yorick together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Maokai to work well with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Maokai and Yorick synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Yorick than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when playing alongside Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.9% win rate overall.
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