Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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 Renekton 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, Renekton 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 fall shows that Maokai helps Renekton perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Renekton plays on the same team as Maokai, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Renekton is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Renekton plays with Maokai on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Renekton in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Renekton that will always be his best teammate. However, Maokai is a good teammate for Renekton. By locking into the same side as Renekton, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Renekton and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Renekton. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Renekton players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Renekton and Maokai together, you may not be providing your other allies very much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Renekton in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Renekton and Maokai synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Renekton had an average win rate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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