Talk:Maokai/@comment-3532889-20111209233658/@comment-3486816-20111214210728

A couple items to consider are Sheen and RoA. RoA is pretty much core since after you've built it your mana problems are over, and on a half-decent team you're dishing out more than enough damage (but it wouldn't be enough to solve the problem of bad teammates); sheen helps with that too and he makes better use of the passive than you'd think. It's kind of slot ineffective, though, so it works better if your other items are expensive ones or if you plan to finish trinity force somewhat early (which can hurt your tankiness in some cases; be careful about that). Trinity Force is great on him, but just be careful that you don't remain squishy for too long.

Spirit visage's main strength imo is that it can be built really early for a significant boost to your overall tankiness AND your CDR; there aren't a ton of items like that. The only issue with it is that other great items for Maokai (RoA and Warmog's) benefit heavily from being built early, so you have to find the balance.

Regarding Atma's, I found it surprsingly good, and MetaKai is my go-to build now :D. As I mentioned, the only significant problem with the build is the difficulty of fitting MR into it, but that can be managed.