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 Sett 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, Sett sees a very large drop in his 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 Sett perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sett is paired with Maokai, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Maokai provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sett is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Sett plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Sett during teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Sett that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Maokai is a great companion for Sett. By playing on the same team as Sett, he raises their win rate by 3.9% to 54.4%. This shows that there is a very strong synergy between Sett and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a greater difficulty than Sett. That means Sett players should be cautious when lining up Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Sett and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other allies very much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sett in order to synergize with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Sett and Maokai synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Sett combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sett boasted an average win rate of 54.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Sett and Maokai pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.4% winrate overall.
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