Talk:Maokai/@comment-118.101.57.73-20110221144141/@comment-3238314-20110222070253

You're being picky about what is a good ability and what isn't. Maokai: pop a sapling on cooldown to damage your chaser, and pop Q every chance you get. It slows very nice, and you can always use W+ ghost to root and get away it the cases where you need to. The problem with the abilities you state is that with the exception of gragas' body slam, which is fairly spammable and can go through walls, most of the other will have been used on cooldowns in team fight, especially gragas' ultimate, and most times, after it, you'll be chased by more that one target, and in that case, Q would target more targets. But i dunno, perhaps it's just me thinking his abilities are balanced because they work for me.