Yorick with Maokai
How to Synergize Yorick and Maokai
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Yorick Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Maokai
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Yorick perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yorick plays on the same team as Maokai, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Yorick is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Maokai on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Yorick in teamfights.
Synergies between Yorick and Maokai
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best ally for Yorick that will always be his top synergy. However, Maokai is a great teammate for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, he improves their win rate by 3.6% to 53.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong bond between Yorick and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Yorick. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Yorick and Maokai together, you may not be granting your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Yorick in order to synergize with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Yorick and Maokai synergy build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Yorick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Yorick had an average win rate of 53.9% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.9% win rate overall.
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