Talk:Maokai/@comment-24636938-20141108055153/@comment-15244341-20141109125234

Maokai will carry you THROUGH Platinum. That's because in higer divisions people know how to properly play with a frontline and carrys have a clue on teamfighting, so spending a teamfight helping your support peel for your backline and giving your team massive damage resistance will actually win the game because you backline wont (disclaimer: usually) suck balls.

That said, lower divisions are carried by the champions with higher damage output, since people have no clue on how to peel and getting kills on the backline is pretty easy with assassins/high damage bruisers.

All things said, TP/Ganks make or break lower divisions. Many times people that get camped just give up and start trolling or stop trying to win, plus they usually get angry and play worse. So yes, you can actually win a game from your team as Mao by just being good at pressuring the map.