Talk:Maokai/@comment-3238314-20110218160731

At long last, EU patch is online, i bought him, and played a couple of practices, and will play him more tomorrow after my final exam (irrelevant for you). This is a short ANALysis.

Innate. This is pretty sweet. every 5 casts you heal-punch the enemy for 7% of your life this helps you shrug off small harassment cheaply. It is great, however, in teamfights, where thanks to all the spam you probably can land it every 2nd auto attack. Make sure to do so, because otherwise you're wasting very good free healing. Sap all over their faces.

Q this is actually better than it looks in theory. It's your lowest cooldown ability, and it provides nice dps with frozen heart's and golem's CDR, plus the slow/knock back which disrupt the surrounding unit by alot. It's kind of like a rammus powerball that you can use every 6 seconds(if you don't get frozen heart. which you should. really now. you just should.) I think this should be maxed second.

W. Place point at level 2. Use to root(it's actually the first time when a "root" effect has a root animation. Yes, tree joke) and get in the fray. Profit. This is also a good damage ability, so you can use it like kat's blink to finish off the enemies. Similarly at least.

E: This is the shit. someone giving you trouble? BOMB THEM!. this is a seeking mortar... with legs! this ability is just great, and very versatile. You can scout, you can farm, you can harrass at tower, i'm not sure how well it will work in a real life scenario, but if someone wants to bp at very low life, you can FUCK'EM TO DEATH.

R. Well... strangely i'll talk about items here for some reason. I realised pretty soon that mao is extremely mana and life dependent, therefore you'll probably pick some items that aren't actually tanky, like a tear of the goddess and RoA. the thing is, i realised he doesn't actually need them his ultimate takes care of that! It's relatively low CD, especially at high lvl, and it's a portable 20% damage reduction. That fixes any squishyness that emerges, making him quite on par with the others. Overall, this champ is great.