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.
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
The Maokai Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Maokai sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Mordekaiser. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Mordekaiser helps Maokai perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Mordekaiser, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Mordekaiser does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Mordekaiser on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Mordekaiser.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Mordekaiser on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Mordekaiser does a decent job of protecting Maokai during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Mordekaiser is a great teammate for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 3.5% to 56.1%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Maokai and Mordekaiser that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Mordekaiser has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be cautious when lining up Mordekaiser comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Maokai and Mordekaiser together, you will not be providing your other allies much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Mordekaiser ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to synergize with Mordekaiser during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Maokai and Mordekaiser synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Mordekaiser than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 56.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Mordekaiser with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Maokai and Mordekaiser pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 56.1% winrate overall.
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