Talk:Maokai/@comment-10258129-20130625094303/@comment-6000413-20130704130535

@Forest001

I agree that his best position, all things considered, is in the jungle, but that doesn't mean you should only play him that way. I'll give you one simple reason for that: because your enemies won't expect you. If they don't know what you can do you, the advantage is yours if you can explioit it. To counter you they'll have to think without using well known schemes and not many lol players can do that.

If you want a better reason to do that, I can tell you that using a typical jungler as support you can help the jungler when he's ganking, especially if he is more damage-oriented than cc-oriented.

I personally would use Maokai as support only if laning with or facing against a high spam carry like Ezreal, Draven, Corki, MF or Vayne. That way you can use your passive more often and make up for your reduced tankyness pre-6.

P.S.: advantage over Leona: saplings. You cannot beat leona at her own job, but thanks to saplings you can buy fewer wards (only pink ones + a couple of green ones for emergencies) and buy armor and health to supply for your lack of tankiness.