Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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.
The Pantheon Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Pantheon sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Pantheon perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pantheon is an ally to Maokai, he sees a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Maokai helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pantheon is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Pantheon plays with Maokai on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Pantheon during team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Pantheon that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Maokai is a good teammate for Pantheon. By playing on the same team as Pantheon, he improves their win rate by 2.9% to 52.3%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Pantheon and Maokai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Pantheon. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Pantheon players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Pantheon and Maokai together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Pantheon to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Pantheon and Maokai synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Bloodsong, and Eclipse. When Pantheon bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Pantheon and Maokai pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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