Yone with Maokai
How to Synergize Yone and Maokai
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Yone Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Yone vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Yone and Maokai
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.
Yone Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Yone in LoL
The Yone 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, Yone 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 decrease shows that Maokai helps Yone perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yone is paired with Maokai, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Maokai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yone is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Yone plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Yone during team fights.
Synergies between Yone and Maokai
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Is Yone better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Yone that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a fantastic companion for Yone. By locking into the same side as Yone, he raises their win rate by 3.1% to 52.4%. This proves that there is an important bond between Yone and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Yone. 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 much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Yone and Maokai together, you may not be giving your other allies enough utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Yone in order to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Yone and Maokai synergy build include Infinity Edge, Wit's End, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Yone boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Yone and Maokai pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Maokai with Yone are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.