Talk:Maokai/@comment-3486816-20120529023950/@comment-77.236.25.91-20120529145243

Yeah, I dont understand people who build AP items on maokai. Of course he has some scaling, but his damage is miserable anyway. The only really AP item that I can think about is Rylai (health, utility, your ulti is now slowing everybody and so do your saplings).

As for Athene`s, this idea seems really bad to me. A ton of gold for 80 AP (which is pretty much wasted on mao), some mana regen and CDR (not bad, but not primary focus on him) and mediocre amount of MR. This item is good in general, but it just doesnt work very good for maokai imo.

I think it`d be amazing to replace RoA with some actually useful tank item like frozen heart/randuin/banshee/frozen mallet/FoN or even this Rylai. But this is your build, bro :P