Talk:Maokai/@comment-25532677-20151115190728/@comment-5955640-20151115202506

Mana cost. Arcane Smash is too short a range, E is very expensive as a harass tool, and Twisted Advance is a very short range intiation in comparison to how ranged and melee champs like to initate. Basically Maokai needs to get mana and some tankiness to actually be useful and he has to have a marksman with great frontloaded damage and even crowd control to lock them down or even a bit of tankiness.

It's a bit much to ask for. On top of that Maokai would really benefit sustain wise from casters who aren't spell spamming for at least 10 minutes.