Samira with Maokai
How to Synergize Samira and Maokai
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Samira Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Samira vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Maokai
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.
Samira Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira 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 Samira perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira plays on the same team as Maokai, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Maokai helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Maokai on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Samira in team fights.
Synergies between Samira and Maokai
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Is Samira better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Samira that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Maokai is a decent companion for Samira. By playing on the same team as Samira, he raises their win rate by 2.8% to 51.5%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Samira and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Samira. That means Samira players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Samira and Maokai together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Samira and Maokai synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Hubris. When Samira bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Samira and Maokai pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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