Talk:Maokai/@comment-67.169.207.175-20110304114301/@comment-139.130.57.34-20110304235806

The point is that guy failed as Maokai.

Maokai is a fantastic ganker. His ult and q sets up ganks like no one's business. His ult is only used once the team fight has been committed to, not as an opener or anything. Walking out of a committed team fight is abandoning those team mates already getting beat on/dying.

He isn't really a main tank since his tanking ability is completely item dependant, but he is good as a secondary tank for late game when he does become rather tanky and the main tank needs some help with all that late-game damage. People just play him wrong. People initiate with ult, never gank, or focus on being dps or some other terrible pubstomp mentality build.