Annie with Maokai
How to Synergize Annie and Maokai
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Annie Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Annie with Maokai
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a large worsening in her 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 Annie perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie tries to synergize with Maokai, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This may indicate that Maokai provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Maokai on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Annie in team fights.
Synergies between Annie and Maokai
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Is Annie better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Maokai is a superb teammate for Annie. By playing on the same team as Annie, he increases their win rate by 3.4% to 52.7%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Annie and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Maokai teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Annie and Maokai together, you may not be giving your side very much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Annie in order to work well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Annie and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 52.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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