Talk:Maokai/@comment-27993288-20190519120441/@comment-36002403-20190521112150

You are right in a lot of points but i cant confirm your story.

He surely isnt the best champ to pick in the current meta but an average of 51,4% winratio no matter the elo isnt that bad.

I understand your frustration, as a top laner your lane often get decided by the jungler. Just one sucessful gank already decide the laning phase. And most junglers dont gank their tank at top lane since tanks cant carry games. I often lose my lane against for example Riven players because they get non stop ganked by their jungle while my jungle just dont care about me. My suggestion if you want to win match ups at top: You better choice a fighter/juggernaut.

True damage, especially Vayne and Conqueror is another story of maokai performing bad. My suggestion: Just always ban Vayne if you want to pick a tank at top lane.

I also agree in terms of runes with you. In general tanks are very limited in their rune choice but Mao definitely got 2 viable options here being GotU and Aftershock. Both can be proced easily. Still you will get heavily outclassed by conqueror.