User blog comment:NowItsAParty/Truly Ascended/@comment-15244341-20140913231013

Maokai is pretty dumb. From level six onwards you can make your team really tanky and you passive is almost constantly up. I like Swain there too. He gets his midgame spike pretty early and he dominates for quite a bit in small skirmishes. Fiora also wrecks all kinds of face, since the small fights she loves are really common.

That said, I think ascending someone is a pretty huge bait unless that champion can easily execute enemy champions or is pretty much a lawnmower with the buff (Jax, Yi, Trynd...). Relics and picking people off are the way to go IMO. Denying relics is specially important. Level 3 fights are often critical, and the strongest team at three will pretty much get the advantage easily.