Talk:Maokai/@comment-3184542-20110504134541/@comment-3238314-20110504214104

He's not a noob. New strategies and builds that break the current are always good and work their way into the new meta game. However, you must have the champion kit in mind before you think of these things. Indeed, in this case, Alistar and Maokai's kits consist of short range skills that put them at close quarters, where they're easy to target, ergo they must be build to sustain heavy fire. A tanky AP hybrid build is possible, such items exist. However, the tanky part takes precedence. This, and the fact that they disrupt and provide good team utility make them very good pure tanks. There's also the fact that they aren't that high up on the support part to actually be helpful to the team.