Talk:Maokai/@comment-3165723-20110219223731/@comment-24.2.2.216-20110220031214

i've mainly been building AP, but i haven't done much in the way of Runes yet. i just hit thirty a couple weeks ago and i've just been buying champs but i've recently been buying more runes. but i usually start with a health crystal and get Clarity to keep my mana up. i harass for the first few levels but once i get my full combo (sapling, root, slam) i start going for kills. I build the health crystal into RoA asap, and get spell pen boots. After that i get Spirit Visage for the MR, CD, and Healing, then Rylai's, then Glacial Shroud into Frozen heart, negatron into FoN,. This build keeps me still pretty tanky and lets me do some pretty scary damage, especially in team fights. His ult is just irreplaceable. absorbs good damage and returns enough to put the beat down on some squishier opponents. This last game i played i had 5 kills by level 7 (the ezreal and vlad in my lane were retards and i enjoyed killing them >:D) and that got me pretty fed. he's incredible for singling out opponents in team fights, his initiation is amazing because his root, being single target, paints a bull's eye on the enemy for your team. his damage is great early game but seems to taper off a little bit late game, but still is far from negligible. i think the highlight of the game was: i was at the enemy team's golem trying to get the buff, when the golem was about at 1/3 health i got ganked by Ezreal blinking over the trees and a teemo shooting me from the other side, so i had all three of them hitting me. i pop my ult and start attacking ezreal and get him at about 1/2 health and start running. then i was like "screw it i'm gonna die anyways" so i turn around, tele-root ezreal, knockup, switch off my ult for a huge nuke and kill him and the golem. the result: i get away with about 30 health, golem buff, and a kill. it was really, really fun.