Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
The Morgana 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, Morgana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Morgana perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Morgana is paired with Maokai, she gets a sizeable uptick in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Maokai helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Morgana is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Additionally, when Morgana plays with Maokai on the same team, she on average takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of covering Morgana in team fights.
There is no top companion for Morgana that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Maokai is a very typical teammate for Morgana. By being on the same team as Morgana, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 52.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Morgana and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a greater difficulty than Morgana. That means you need to be careful when arranging Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by grouping Morgana and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your side very much AD. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Morgana in order to synergize with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Morgana and Maokai synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Morgana boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Morgana players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Morgana and Maokai pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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