Shaco with Maokai
How to Synergize Shaco and Maokai
based on 3,956 Shaco with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Maokai Counter Build
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Starter Items
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Maokai
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Shaco perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Maokai, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Maokai helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Maokai
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a good companion for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 50.6%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Shaco and Maokai that results in them performing better together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Shaco and Maokai together, you will not be giving your side enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Shaco Maokai Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Shaco and Maokai synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Maokai with Shaco are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.