Talk:Maokai/@comment-12049719-20131229045957/@comment-6000413-20140113162815

It's like assassin maokai, but worse, because you deal more sustained damage but less burst and burst is what makes maokai assassin vaible. Since mao has to teleport in the middle of the fight to deal most of his damage, you are going do die a horrible death without defenses in any teamfight with more than 2 enemy champs. Your sustain and naturale defenses are nowhere strong enogh to let you survive the fight.

AP assassin maokai is way better. Rabadon, LB, Zhonia, DFG. You jump in and kill your target in 2 secs. Sure, after that you'll have to use zhonya and hope your team comes to save you, but you indeed killed the guy.