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Moakai, the Hybrid Treant

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I don't how else to say this, but, wow. It works so well. best build for maokai yet.

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Mana is only an issue until you get DFG, and junglers do not own rights to blue buff. Ive found that at anytime in game, if you ask if you might have it, you will most likely get told yes. Being polite helps.

The reason I take Lich over Trinity, is simply because he is an AP champ, and AP helps deal more dmg in all his skills.

And ty for pointing out my boots. I was half away when this was made.

In my opinion its a great idee of playing him as a Hybrid Dps champ.
But! this build has definitly not enough mana or manareg to spam a few Skills (without bluebuff) and as soon as you got a jungler or a castercarry, you won´t get this..
the second point i got, is that he´s to slow in attacking. 0.88 without and nearly 1 with stacks on guisoos.
and the last two points i realized are:
first - trinity force would be better then lich bane, because you got (even with lichbane) more Ad than Ap, and 150% of your Ad are more than 100% of your Ap.. ^^
and the second you forgot when to upgrade your shoes in the item buy list.

mfg Narubion

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Voted +1

ive used this build for a while now, just havent gotten around to upvoting. +1, owns on TT.

wrote:

I play a fair amount of tree and I consider him to be one of my strongest champions. When I saw this build I thought to myself, "wtf? is this guy serious?! I can kinda see where he is going with this... maybe he is on to something."

I set up the rune page, 2x checked the masteries, got a 5 man arranged team together with some friends who aren't completely awful and started a match.

Like any tree who wants to rack up early kills I went to Bot lane w/ xin xao and we managed to eek out first blood despite my horrible mana issues. Now, with wriggles in hand, I proceeded to clear out the jungle buffs and began my gank-a-thon!!! Enemies were dying for certain, but all I was contributing was a snare and a couple auto attacks, but I got a couple assists so wtf right?

---Conclusion---
I finished the build during this 40 minute game and found myself to be useless, squishy and quite gimped after the roaming phase had ended. the early Wriggles seems a suprising success but aside from that I can't recommend anything suggested in this build and can't REALLY recommend the wriggles either in it's current place in the build order. I won my match, ended with a score of 7/9/11, but I was basically carried and I died in every fight I engaged in come late game.

-1, because I don't like the way it works, but I really wanted to be able to +1 for this build because it made me laugh and it's very creative.

Despite the -1, this is probably the first respectable downvote in the history of downvotes. Congrats on being a good person. I'd suggest that you play it more than once though before you downvote next time. But seriously, wish more people approached guides as honestly as this. +1 rep yo

Looks pretty cool. I'm not going to up-vote yet cause I haven't tried it, but conceptually it looks very good. I really like how detailed you are about what to get for the item order. This is the only guide I've seen that states every component and exactly when to get it.

(114) |

chaos can be a lovely thing... challenging but lovely. you know where to find me if you wanna share

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Voted +1

Wonderful ideas once again! I have been on Mobafire for a while with just guest status, but reading all of your guides gave me some ...interesting... ideas of my own which I hope that I might be able to share with you. Chaos is wonderfully fun!

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Voted +1

I like the idea, and it is different. will try it out if i buy maokai :)

(114) |

I find nashor's to be good. Im working on changing a few things.

one thing I find that works very well is getting sheen and revolver early. More bursty and the AP is nice too. There are many ways to itemize, but Im not done tinkering.

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I understood the basic premise of what you were going for man, and I did understand that I am not a tank. Even so I was destroyed when I engaged 1v1 against anyone on the enemy team aside from Veigar... Perhaps with some more tweaking this type of tree could be viable but I just don't think that this build is right for it. Guinsoos rageblade is definitely not the item for tree imo. Maybe nashors tooth would work better in it's place?

(114) |

Well Mega you cant be the engaging tree that he is designed for. Like I said, this isnt much of a team fight build. 1v1 you can be a beast, and as a ganker, you did just what you was suppose to. Snare, slow, and set up for kills. You only played on game and that alone isnt enough. You have to give it more than one game, and you have to be in the mind-state that you are no tank. You are suppose to set up ganks and let others go in before you.

I warned of mana issues too. I say that one game isnt enough for you to -1, but than again I dont craft to suit everyone

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