Neeko with Maokai
How to Synergize Neeko and Maokai
based on 3,021 Neeko with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Neeko Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Maokai Counter Build
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Core Neeko Items
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Maokai
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Neeko sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Neeko perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Neeko tries to synergize with Maokai, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Maokai supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Neeko plays with Maokai on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Neeko during team fights.
Synergies between Neeko and Maokai
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal synergy for Neeko that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, Maokai is a good ally for Neeko. By locking into the same team as Neeko, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 50.5%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Neeko and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Neeko. That means Neeko players don't need to be careful when finding Maokai allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Neeko and Maokai together, you probably will not be providing your team much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Neeko in order to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Neeko and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Neeko bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Neeko boasted an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Neeko players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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