Thresh with Maokai
How to Synergize Thresh and Maokai
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Thresh Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Maokai
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Thresh perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is paired with Maokai, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with 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 with Maokai.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Thresh in team fights.
Synergies between Thresh and Maokai
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Thresh that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a below average ally for Thresh. By being on the same side as Thresh, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 46.5%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Thresh and Maokai that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Thresh and Maokai together, you will not be giving your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Thresh and Maokai synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Maokai with Thresh are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.