Talk:Maokai/@comment-75.22.54.234-20110216233427

I just played him and I semi-underwhelmed in him as a tank. His initiation tool is his pool into stun, which a non-skill shot version of Amumu's bandage toss. While visually it may resemble Vlad's pool, it is in essence Amumu'a bandage toss. His saplings are a bit lackluster as well but they can do decent damage but they are uncontrollable and will go after the nearest foe so heroes can easily avoid them. His Arcane Smash is quite nice and rather cheap. If memory serves it maxes out at 55/cast with a relatively decent cooldown. His ult does nothing but provide cover for allies, no slow, even with a Rylai's and is easily countered by... walking out of it. The damage component of it is low. At rank 3 the max damage absorded for the explosion is 250. With the ult's low cooldown I'd be happier spamming it as an explosion tool outside of teamfights. If a teamfight happens in the circle, it's nice, but the other team wised up quick and left the circle when it dropped, which is kind of nice for Tower/Inhib defense. I need to toy with him a bit more, but he is more of an off-tank/support rather than a tank a la Shen/Rammus.