Talk:Maokai/@comment-72.231.16.210-20120626003708/@comment-76.20.47.114-20120629003001

maokai specificly benefits from frozen heart. You'll find that you can't always take the blue buff for yourself when you have mid, and his fast jungle speed comes at a high mana cost. an early glacial shroud can do wonders. People like Rod of Ages on him due to the stats, but it's up for grabs. It certrainly fills the AP tank role a bit better than a pure tank. However, the extra AP will keep your jungle clearing times up in even mid game.

SR seems pretty good to build out of the starting philo stone, and randuim's omen is great since you have a gap closer/snare.

Make sure that you're building against the opponents though, above all. The AP items are icing on the cake if you're doing really well and it's a stomp.