Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
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 Twitch 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, Twitch 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 fall shows that Maokai helps Twitch perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Twitch is paired with Maokai, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Maokai helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Twitch is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Twitch plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Twitch in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Twitch that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Twitch. By playing on the same side as Twitch, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 51.9%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Twitch and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Twitch. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Twitch and Maokai together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Twitch in order to synergize with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Twitch and Maokai synergy build include Infinity Edge, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Twitch combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Twitch had an average winrate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Maokai with Twitch are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located above.