Xayah with Maokai
How to Synergize Xayah and Maokai
based on 2,029 Xayah with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xayah Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Xayah vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Maokai
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Maokai helps Xayah perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah is an ally to Maokai, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Maokai provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Maokai on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Xayah in team fights.
Synergies between Xayah and Maokai
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xayah that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, Maokai is a decent ally for Xayah. By playing on the same team as Xayah, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 49.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Xayah and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Xayah. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Xayah and Maokai together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Xayah to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Xayah and Maokai synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Maokai with Xayah are given for every ranked division. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.