Veigar with Maokai
How to Synergize Veigar and Maokai
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Veigar Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Maokai
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Maokai helps Veigar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar tries to synergize with Maokai, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Maokai on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of covering Veigar in teamfights.
Synergies between Veigar and Maokai
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best ally for Veigar that will always be his top synergy. However, Maokai is a fantastic ally for Veigar. By locking into the same team as Veigar, he raises their win rate by 3.0% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong bond between Veigar and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Veigar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Veigar and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your team very much attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Veigar in order to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Veigar and Maokai synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 52.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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