When you're up against team compositions without champions building crit or full AD/AP compositions you'll also be building different items. Meaning if AP champions on the enemy team snowball the early game you'll have to focus on MR items first, unless you avoid fights around that specific champion. Determine which six items you need before the game starts, the item build above is optimal against your average enemy team composition, however the order will be determined by the state of the game. Whenever you play a champion your item build/order needs to somewhat be flexible, this is especially the case for tanks as they will fully focus on items with resistances. To play Maokai like a god it's definitely important to know which enemies you need to be tanking/cc'ing during teamfights, but most importantly have fun playing Maokai and being the unkillable forest!Ĭheck out the chapters, Items for reasonings and Tips & Tricks for useful information on Maokai gameplay. Eventually you're outsustaining the enemies and you're ready to secure objectives. It's your job to crowd control as many enemies as possible while keeping divers/assassins off of your carries so that your team can pick them off one by one.
Teamfights aren't always coordinated therefore you'll have to keep your team together.
So if you like tanking, locking enemies down and staying healthy after teamfights then Maokai is the champion made for you. You're the champion that soaks up all the damage for your team while staying sustained you're able to siege turrets and secure objectives. Maokai is the type of support champion that brings amazing crowd control and prevents the enemy team to go on your carries by locking them down. I recently started streaming aswell (2018, January) you can find me on
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