arcane smash

Explenation:

Sap Magic: This is Maokai's passive, this is what he use to renegate up hp! what it does is that is will draw power from every ablity/spell casted near him, included his own, for every time he will get a stack om Sap Magic, when he have 5 stacks his next basic will heal him for 7% of his maximum health, this is very usefull when jungling or when playing burst mage! this ability also made me try him AD!



arcane smash: This is Maokai's Q, this is the ability you should max first! i do max it first! You basicly use this to either slow or pushing enemy units away from Maokai!, choose this after Sapling Toss and max it by either lv 12 or 9! This is one of your jungling abilities and you just basicly shot this ability to the creeps in the forest after you throw a sapling!



Twisted Advance: In this ability Maokai transorms himself in some kinnd of twisted thing and then he "leaps" to the opponent, then they will be rooted to the ground and can't move for a while, it basicly works like a "snare" after you have "leaped" to your target!
OBS! This ability shouldnt be used on champions near turrets, if they flash when you started to "leap" you will still jum to them behind the turret!
OBS II! Don't use this when jungling beacuse this will make them reset if you cast this when the fight has started! can only be use when opening a "farming spot".



Sapling Toss: This is Maokai's cutest ability!!! this is used to ward places temporaly when jungling but also taking damage to jungle monsters and farming,
Farming: When farming mind/late with this sappling just throw it to the ranged minion in the back and the sappling will kill them!
Jungling: When jungling always pick this ability "FIRST", you use this ability to stack at wrathes before blue! you start stacking the saplings at "1:05", you stack untill you have 2 sapplings, then you wait untill the wrathes spawns at "1:40", then you throw your 3rd sappling so it will hit the wrathes and then explode, if you this you will kill them abut 3 secs after they spawned and you can keep on to blue!



Vengeful Maelstrom: This is Maokai's ultimate/R, this is an AoE ulti that will deffend you friends from 20% of damage, then when its released it will release 2dmg from every damage dealt (max: 200dmg extra +50% ap+ base damage) and will realease that to his opponents! This ultimate is really underrestimated and i cant understand why Maokai's almost never played... op ulti can be used to farm!!!
Pick this on lv 6/11/16 like all ultis :)


Combos:
Wen jungling you will use this combo:
Toss sappling at jungle-minion and then use you Twisted Advance to jump to them!
After that just spam your arcane smash and kill them with basics!
(E+W+Q+Q)

When ganking use this combo:
first (optional) you trhow a sappling at them to grant vision or to take damage, then you jump to them with Twisted Advance, then walk in from if them and use arcane smash to slow them and push them away from their turret!
After tha you hit them with basics or (optional) activate your Vengeful Maelstrom to absorb some damage! (remeber to activate second-time pretty fast it takes REALLY alot of mana from him!!!), after that just track them with your ([color=#00ff00]twisted advance[/color]+ arcane smash combo), at the end you will get them killed!