Tristana with Maokai
How to Synergize Tristana and Maokai
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Tristana Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Maokai
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Tristana perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana is an ally to Maokai, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Maokai provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Maokai on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Tristana in team fights.
Synergies between Tristana and Maokai
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect companion for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a decent companion for Tristana. By locking into the same side as Tristana, he increases their win rate by 2.8% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Tristana and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Tristana. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Tristana players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Tristana and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Tristana to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Tristana and Maokai synergy build include Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 51.7% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Tristana players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Bloodline runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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