Rumble with Maokai
How to Synergize Rumble and Maokai
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Rumble Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Maokai
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Rumble perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble is an ally to Maokai, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Maokai supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Rumble plays with Maokai on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of covering Rumble during team fights.
Synergies between Rumble and Maokai
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Rumble that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Maokai is a fantastic ally for Rumble. By playing on the same team as Rumble, he increases their win rate by 3.7% to 53.0%. This shows that there is an important bond between Rumble and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Maokai allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Rumble and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your side much AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rumble to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Rumble and Maokai synergy build include Riftmaker, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rumble had an average win rate of 53.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.0% win rate overall.
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