Nilah with Maokai
How to Synergize Nilah and Maokai
based on 2,436 Nilah with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nilah Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Nilah vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nilah and Maokai
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.
Nilah Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Nilah in LoL
The Nilah 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, Nilah sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Nilah perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nilah tries to synergize with Maokai, they gets a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Nilah plays with Maokai on the same side, they typically takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Nilah during teamfights.
Synergies between Nilah and Maokai
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Is Nilah better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nilah that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. However, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Nilah. By locking into the same side as Nilah, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 53.5%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Nilah and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Nilah. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nilah players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Nilah and Maokai together, you may not be providing your side much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Nilah and Maokai synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three great items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nilah had an average winrate of 53.5% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Nilah players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nilah and Maokai pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.5% win rate overall.
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