Talk:Maokai/@comment-205.211.168.53-20120329132327/@comment-3486816-20120402033639

Maokai is a support tanky dps jungler mage. He excels at everything. I'm hardly kidding. His early game plays like Rammus with fast clearing and very strong early ganks, which can open you up for building items like RoA as fast as possible and nuking the heck out of squishier targets during mid game, and moving on to build more tanky dps (in my case Atma's and Trinity, provided I get that far, I know it sounds weird) and support (Locket and/or Shurelia's) items to help you remain a factor later game.

The problem I've found with him otherwise is that once the game passes 35-40 minutes in most games he's largely ignorable because he's unkillable, but doesn't deal much back because cooldowns become more of a factor when most can survive the duration of his CCs.