Taliyah with Maokai
How to Synergize Taliyah and Maokai
based on 1,532 Taliyah with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Maokai
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah 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, Taliyah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Taliyah perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah tries to synergize with Maokai, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Maokai helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played alongside Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Maokai on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Taliyah during teamfights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Maokai
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top champion pairing for Taliyah that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Maokai is a top-tier ally for Taliyah. By locking into the same side as Taliyah, he raises their win rate by 4.3% to 53.1%. This signals that there is a strong strategic relationship between Taliyah and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players don't need to be cautious when arranging Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Taliyah and Maokai together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill 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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Taliyah in order to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Taliyah and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average winrate of 53.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Taliyah players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Taliyah and Maokai pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.1% win rate overall.
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