Naafiri with Maokai
How to Synergize Naafiri and Maokai
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Naafiri Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Maokai
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Advice to Understand How Maokai Will Play
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.
Naafiri Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Naafiri perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri tries to synergize with Maokai, they sees a little increase in their total damage dealt. This could signal that Maokai provides cover for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Maokai on the same side, they often takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Naafiri in teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top ally for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their top ally. However, Maokai is a very typical teammate for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Naafiri and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players should be cautious when lining up Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Naafiri and Maokai together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Naafiri and Maokai synergy build include Guardian Angel, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three great items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Maokai with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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