Talk:Maokai/@comment-124.13.138.122-20110217160407/@comment-67.180.61.245-20110217181553

You expected an ult on a 40 second CD that decreases all non-tower damage taken by allies by 20% to do over 500 damage before AP? You can compare it to a blitz ult, but if blitz builds AP then then he only gets 2 abilities that benefit, whereas Maokai has 4 AP ratios, all of which are at least decent given their CD. And, unlike Blitz's ult, Maokai's can prevent damage to your entire team.

Honestly, his ult is considerably more powerful than I expected; it does more damage, prevents more, and is on a lower cooldown than I expected. So far as I'm concerned, it's amazing as long as the player has proper timing.