Talk:Maokai/@comment-5763148-20131114014705/@comment-6301771-20131124183953

A mage's biggest threat is always someone they can't burst down: In that sense, Maokai is a huge threat to any mage even without any sort of silence. Every spellcast just gives him more healing, functionally, and once he gets in your face he's difficult to escape from for the average mage. Add in that he absorbs and reflects the damage you throw at him with his ult, and yeah, he's very much an anti-mage AP bruiser, especially if he's building items like Spirit Visage, Abyssal Scepter, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter.