Rammus with Maokai
How to Synergize Rammus and Maokai
based on 1,976 Rammus with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Maokai Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Maokai
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus 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, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Rammus perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rammus tries to synergize with Maokai, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Maokai doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Rammus plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Rammus during team fights.
Synergies between Rammus and Maokai
Damage Types Compared
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best ally for Rammus that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical companion for Rammus. By locking into the same team as Rammus, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 51.7%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Rammus and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Rammus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Rammus players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Rammus and Maokai together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Rammus Maokai Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Rammus and Maokai synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Rammus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Maokai with Rammus are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.