Pros and cons and what does he do?
Pros: -Great teamfights -Strong 1v1s later in game -Pretty good behind because of his utility -Can play around himself and around the team
- after tough
Cons: -no build variety pretty much, no full dmg build on top -Tough early game -can't solo carry the game -if he gets behind then ok he is great in teamfights but in 1v1s u pretty much lose always
Maokai is a tank who excells at teamfights, kind of splitpushing and CC is his main thing. Should you play him? Probably yes, but not solo, he is much better with a high dps duo such as Vayne, Samira, Viego, Viktor, Vladimir or smth else.
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Maokai abilities
Q- Pushes back an enemy, low cd, max health dmg, great because you can play against agressive toplaners and also tanks because of the %, upgrade it first pretty much always W- become invurable, go into the ground, point and click root the enemy, Not huge dmg that's why you max it last. E- Throw a minion, he stays in place until he sees an enemy, stronger when placed in a bush, Good because it scales with your max health R- Deploy vines that accelerate and root enemies. Really good for teamfighting.
Not much to say.
Good scaling hp, good split pushing, great on lane, not much to say.
In most matchups because most of the time you need sustain on lane
Matchups
this will be a matchup tierlist. S tier is the best matchups, D tier worst.
Overall
He's a good teamfighter, a pretty good blindpick, a champion that excells with items mostly and is designed to play defensively on lane, but you can try and make a good agressive play if you want to. Overall I would definitely recommend picking up maokai and trying him as he is getting stronger with the current meta :D.
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