Maokai with Zac
How to Synergize Maokai and Zac
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Maokai Zac Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Zac
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Maokai Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zac helps Maokai perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is an ally to Zac, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Zac does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Zac 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 Zac.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Zac on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Zac does a decent job of covering Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Zac
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Zac?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Zac is a very typical ally for Maokai. By locking into the same team as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 53.2%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Maokai and Zac that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zac has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Zac allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Maokai players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Zac together, you will not be providing your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zac ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Maokai and Zac synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zac than with most other common builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.2% when playing alongside Zac with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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