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 Qiyana 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, Qiyana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Qiyana perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Qiyana is an ally to Maokai, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This change may indicate that Maokai helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Qiyana is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Qiyana plays with Maokai on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Qiyana in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Qiyana that will always be her top teammate. However, overall, Maokai is a pretty good teammate for Qiyana. By playing on the same side as Qiyana, he improves their win rate by 2.9% to 50.7%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Qiyana and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Qiyana. That means Qiyana players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Maokai teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Qiyana players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Qiyana and Maokai together, you will not be granting your team a lot of AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana in order to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Qiyana and Maokai synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Qiyana used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Qiyana players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Qiyana and Maokai pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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