Talk:Maokai/@comment-75.158.8.160-20110704103256

Chalice. Sorceror's Boots. Will Of The Ancients. Rylei's.

Max those saplings. The Twisted Advance and Ult when you can. I use Q for the knock up so I don't level it unless I have to. I take AP Quints and Magic Pen Marks too, plus enhanced ignite, for scary early game harass. People used to laugh about blowing the ignite for AP at the start of a fight but not anymore! It ends up being the game winner a lot of the time.

This is what I've built pretty much every game for the last few weeks. I just finished a game with 15 kills, 3 deaths, 29 assists (I know, score doesn't really mean anything to people outside of the game, but I've been consistently dominating). If you throw the maxed sapling right, then root them into it's landing, then throw the ult down, knock them up with Q, you're guaranteed an easy kill apart from them blowing all their flash/blinks to get out. The great thing about this is that you can effectively hit everyone with the same burst. Literally 5v1 and ace, although normally they'll have people tanky enough to survive it. With the spell vamp, it's not unusual for me to initiate a 5v1, kill one or two people, and walk away with more health than I had initially. Maokai is scary good if you can get all the timing right.

Also I recently Twisted Advance'd an Ezreal through his blink and his flash. Was awesome.