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 Rell 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, Rell sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Rell perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rell is paired with Maokai, she observes a noticable increase in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Maokai helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rell is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Rell plays with Maokai on the same side, she typically takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Rell in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Rell that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Maokai is a terrible teammate for Rell. By playing on the same team as Rell, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 46.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Rell and Maokai that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Maokai has a greater difficulty than Rell. That means Rell players must be very careful when lining up Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Rell players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Rell and Maokai together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Rell and Maokai synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rell had an average win rate of 46.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Rell players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rell and Maokai pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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