Soraka with Maokai
How to Synergize Soraka and Maokai
based on 1,044 Soraka with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Soraka Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Soraka vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Maokai
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Soraka perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Soraka tries to synergize with Maokai, she gets a sizeable uptick in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Maokai helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played alongside Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Soraka plays with Maokai on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Soraka in team fights.
Synergies between Soraka and Maokai
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Is Soraka better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Soraka that will always be her ideal ally. However, Maokai is a decent companion for Soraka. By being on the same side as Soraka, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Soraka and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Soraka. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Soraka and Maokai together, you will not be providing your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Soraka to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Soraka and Maokai synergy build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Soraka players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Soraka and Maokai pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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