Talk:Maokai/@comment-24.13.166.205-20130317040752/@comment-4019444-20130319155723

He's underplayed because we're going back to a little trend that popped up sometime during S2: fighters are acting as tanks now. Dedicated tanks like Maokai aren't as favored (again) because their damage output is low. Champions like Jarvan, Vi and Xin provide strong initiation and deal respectable damage. That's just how I see it, I remember the jungle-tank era in S2 (when Naut and Mao were popular as hell). However, we favor damage over utility again.