Talk:Maokai/@comment-10258129-20130625094303/@comment-6000413-20130625132659

Maokai mid is actually ok, but situational. Go for chalice as soon as possible, to keep spamming saplings, then get boots and lyandry, the rest is up to you. A ROA os good, as well.

Maokai support is nice for the scouting you can do with the saplings, but you need good mana regen for that. Take the mana regen mastery and a lot of support masteries. If you are good at placing saplings you need only some pink wards to counter the the enemy wards. Go for a philo and classic support/tank builds. Build some AP only if you see that you can survive for several seconds in teamfights.

Maokai Jungler is very team and blue dependent: start with machete, place some saplings (E) at blue at 1min 25 s, take Q, go for the red, take W and gank. Your damage oyutput is low, so you need good coordination with your team to score a kill. Mid game you can build some AP, but only if there uis another tank in the team and you don't get focused too much. Otherwise, just go tank (and CD reduction)

Maokai top is acceptable, but he cannot really face the damage output of most bruisers early game. Grab an early armguard and the usual chalice or go for ROA as soon as possible. You can harass, you can ward with saplings, you can lock them for your jungler, but you cannot outdamage most of them.