Zed with Maokai
How to Synergize Zed and Maokai
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Zed Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Zed with Maokai
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed 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 fall shows that Maokai helps Zed perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Maokai, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Maokai
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Is Zed better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal synergy for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Maokai is a decent companion for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he raises their win rate by 2.7% to 51.1%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Zed and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Maokai allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zed and Maokai synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 51.1% helping carry Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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