Talk:Maokai/@comment-46.50.45.241-20120913020100/@comment-216.58.9.28-20120913174908

The 2. is pretty variable, I'd say. You can place it over the enemy team with the expectation you can control their frontline/championswholikeandaregoodatkillingcarries to just do extra damage (or you have managed to dive a squishy of theirs and can expect the enemy team will focus you), but if the enemy has a lot of diving potential/AoE that you doubt you and your team can easily lock down to keep the squishies unscathed, yeah, cast it on your team instead.

The base damage is also actually pretty decent when charged up. Same as Veigar's ultimate, with the advantage of being AoE, having a lower cooldown and providing damage reduction as well, and the drawback of needing to be charged up.