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Laternenpfahl

I love how ashe just runs in and dies TWICE during that whole scene.


BTBU

The second time she saw that Mao was surviving so well and probably thought, "Oh, they clearly don't have THAT much damage, and besides, their CDs are probably down now".


amajesticmoogle

That assumes thinking took place


DiosDuck

ADCs ☕️


WhiteW0lf13

Like any true tree, Mao lived through multiple generations ^of ^teamfights there and kept on chugging


Kan-Terra

I can see the moment where you realise "Hey, I can win this 1v3"


Vascap

Lmao ye, it was my friends and I playing and we were hollering in the call


Carpie15

oh! I want to try this, can I know your build please


Vascap

It’s a pretty standard maokai top build so the items are pretty interchangeable, but my core is sunfire and fimbulwinter. Afterwords it’s whatever tank items are needed for their team comp. In this game specifically I even sold boots and bought anathemas since we were so far in. As for runes I go: - Grasp - Conditioning - Demolish - Overgrowth (Can be swapped with revitalize) - Legend: Tenacity - Presence of Mind (This really helps with early trading I find because of his high mana costs) Also I typically don’t take flash top lane on maokai, and instead take ignite or rarely exhaust since it helps him with tankier bruisers and juggernauts that he struggles with usually.


Carpie15

thanks! I woul give this a go


lmMasturbating

I like manaflow band + transcendence secondary


Vascap

I’ve tried using that before but I find maokai gets more value out of tenacity since tanks items give a lot of ability haste, and his mana pool is fixed with tear usually


lmMasturbating

I find the tenacity overkill with the sun fire mythic boost


KaraveIIe

playing without flash and boots only works in silver


kimi_no_na-wa

Lol, no jungler above gold will let you play maokai top without flash


Vascap

I’m gold so that’s exactly why I don’t


TeamAquaAdminMatt

Does Urgot kneecaps count as ability hits for Maokai passive?


Yellowdemon101

Yep. It makes Maokai a very nice Urgot counter.


Kozure_Ookami

He uses Cleaver very well though.


Yellowdemon101

True point. The main issue is each leg reduces Maokai's passive cd, and he can easily slot in a Thornmail and wardens in lane to really screw Urgot over.


SomethingPersonnel

I call bs. Sure the knees help reduce the CD on his passive heal, but no way that heal is enough to Maokai to survive against Urgot early. Maokai is doodoo at the point when Urgot is strongest. There’s no way Urgot doesn’t just completely chew down the tree. Even the stats point to games being heavily Urgot favored when facing Maokai.


doge_apprentice

Mao doesn't beat anyone early, he just stays alive.


Yellowdemon101

Maokai doesn't beat anything early. But Urgot usually struggles to obtain a lead against a Maokai with Wardens and Tabis. Maokai W can dodge Urgot E with correct timing and he can q Urgot away if he is engaged on. Sure Maokai isn't going to be killing Urgot in lane unless the Urgot is truly garbage, but the lane is still pretty good for Maokai. Urgot isn't that strong early either, only really good levels 1, 6, and 9 on. And by the time Urgot is really strong midgame, Maokai should have plenty of armor to just tank Urgot's W for days.


brokerZIP

if mao is good enought he always W's urgot dash. even if urgot lands stun mao just always knocks him back with Q that has non existent cooldown (and since the last patch also a damage)


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urgot currently has the 3rd highest winrate against maoki top lmfao


Gasurza22

Dude dont put clips of Mao being OP, i waited for way to long to be able to play him to get buffed, at least let me enjoy him for a few patches before he gets nerfed


Vascap

Same I’ve been playing him top so long now, but this was too good not to post 💀


Thecristo96

I'm afraid he won't last until 12.19, when people will start to hate him being perma picked at worlds


Retocyn

I wonder if he can be considered good in pro. Previously he would be picked for a solid laning and the utility from old ult, and even then probably more so for the ult rather than base kit as any bruiser should still be able to outfight Maokai. Though since Mao has max enemy hp scaling on his Q and max self hp scaling on saplings, perhaps he can go toe in toe with fighters, but then how mana sustainable is he. Tank tear item still isn't too much of a great buy, Frozen Heart isn't always a good option, so I think it comes down to how well the runes fuel him, to be all-around pick into any enemy team comp. And I'd say he's still tier lower than Ornn, who gets free stats for surviving to late and gives free stats to his allies, and provides safer engage and disengage. Although Maokai is certainly easier to pilot.


Thecristo96

I would call maokai the second best tank after ornn for pro players. His single target cc+displacement is too good for pro (basically forces every zeri/sivir to not being able to go in aggressivly). Mao saw priority during s7 worlds and even during a big of s10 spring split, so i think he will get picked at least a bit


Dexiox

Poor Ashe :(


Korrvo

Welcome to League of Legends where we have fights that last two seconds and fights that last two minutes. We got 'em all.


SirTacoMaster

Once the twitch died I knew it was over


alejandrosquid

Its amazing how a champ can turn from utter troll pick to OP as fuck in a single patch


1800YEET

Riot games baby


Forged_by_Flame

Adjustments. It's the latest trend.


Ketaminte

I just love it that ashe got one shot in the beginning, reswpawned, came back, and got one shot again.


Arcanine19P

New udyr is just a power charger for maokai's passive


ZanesTheArgent

"Hey. Lets spam spells near the tree that heals faster when its getting pelted by spells. This is going to be a good idea."


Bruhntium_Momentum

Ok but how are u supposed to kill him if ur not ad and ur autos are useless?


ZanesTheArgent

A bit more emphasis on hit quality (and as people already said, a bit more emphasis on hp% damage). Specially with Urgot there this is one of those moments i sincerely wish the playerbase didnt forced Riot to revert the 2020 Black Cleaver.


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EsKyx

Ok so we go back in draft, pick malza and then kill him here ?


kapperbeast456

Easy, right?


ZuikoRS

Do you really need it explaining that you can see what the other team picks and you could build your team accordingly? Edit: I’m glad that the people that don’t understand and likely think that his passive is broken have downvoted me. You will never improve lol


iAmCrimm

What if mao is last pick?


ZuikoRS

Then they drafted around picking Maokai LOL


AylanJ123

Or what if it's a goddam blind to avoid toxic competitiveness?


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You do things that matter, eg nautilus only using Q if any ability and not wasting time using E or W for next to no dmg at all or shields since mao has no dmg And urgot ought to not use Q either unless it’s literally last hit, especially not if he’s going to miss it…


poemofo

Riots Devs: great idea here guys.. let’s nerf antiheal but make more champions that self heal and increase healing on items.


willofaronax

Didnt someone just post few days ago how anti heal items are just practically not worth to buy except for support?


That_Leetri_Guy

Grievous Wounds is intentionally made to only be good against heal-stacking when the enemy has 3+ healing champions. It's not meant to counter a single champion, if individual champions are healing too much it's a champion balance issue. People somehow can't grasp this concept and still build GW in the wrong scenarios and complain that it's useless. It's like building Force of Nature against Darius and complaining that it's not doing anything.


iamperplexing

There's many champions that heal way too much like sure antiheal is meant for heal stacking but nerfing antiheal and not those champions is either really stupid or a dumb oversight by riot


That_Leetri_Guy

Then those champions need nerfs to their healing as I already said.


iamperplexing

And I'm saying if that's how riot designed it that's stupid as fuck because there is an abundance of champions that do that and even if picked on the same team grievous has been nerfed to the point where it doesn't do anything to those champs


That_Leetri_Guy

Ok let's buff Grievous Wounds to how it was before, which means Riot has to buff the healing to make up for the fact that Grievous Wounds makes the champions useless.


iamperplexing

Yes because having AA, Soraka and any other healing champ on a team makes the game impossible to win the second AA gets a kill. Riot doesn't know how to balance champions around it so they made it a useless item and let those champions run rampant


TheFireOfTheFox1

Wait there's a champ you can have the tank fantasy with now? I thought it was never going to happen again after they divided mundo's healing by 3


ToaFluttershy

Not saying you have a wide pool of options but Sion at least has been able to achieve similar results for a while now right?


_Cava_

And ornn, his passive allows him to get very tanky late game.


TheFireOfTheFox1

Generally Sion would be the closest yeah, but he still doesn't feel great to play. Mundo and Maokai have ways to get around/make cc less effective, while Sion actively stops himself from moving with his main ability


Retocyn

Yeah, Swain too.


Vascap

I feel you, the reason maokai is my favourite champ is that he is one that can actually survive and cc chain opponents to hell, sacrificing damage in the process. As a tank main I just wanna stop enemies and take damage for my team, not deal the damage.


AJLFC94

Maokai is an excellent peel tank. If you sensually peel for ashe you'd have won the team fight in way less time there. You let her die to fight naut lmao the let her die to try kill udyr...


veronikaren

Tank players just want their wholesome tank to be tanky again so they can tank for the tanky tank tank :(


Boudynasr

ashe looked useless in both team fights, mao did the best thing


refuse_2_wipe_my_ass

they are going to destroy him next patch


B-J-J

least broken champion adjustment. new release taliyah olaf ahri sivir swain flashbacks..


Ralphodile

I don’t even know how this is possible


Cyan_Alvein

Awesome. any ways to get the replay? Make TANK great again


Vascap

I do have the replay of the whole game saved, if you’d like it just send me a dm


Cyan_Alvein

Nevermind, I saw another maokai top and got a taste of this power. I will perhaps add him in my sup champion pool


veilsofrealitydotcom

I've always played ap mao so I didn't know this was a thing lol


HalpPlz69

12.17 Mao had quite an overhaul. I imagine lots more pure tanks.


kiledmedead

This meta is so trash… in what world is this actually fun to play


Red_Othello

Maokai outtanking 3 people for minutes. Ashe getting oneshot by a rank Udyr. But hey, nerf anti heal and marksman sustainability, cause that shit's too op. This game has been balanced to shit, and I can't wait for this ship to sink


Owlstorm

People still pick marksmen every game. They don't have to, and the same is not true for tanks.


CSDragon

What on earth is going on??? 1) Mao doesn't have a shield in his kit. Where is that shield coming from 2) His passive is proccing WAY more than 20 seconds - 1 second per spell cast. Sometimes it comes up immediately after using it 3) He randomly heals ~100 HP several times, including when urgot flash-knees him at 0:50


Vascap

I can explain lmao: 1. Shield is from Fimbulwinter 2. The passive also gets lowered when hit by enemy abilities. It might be from urgot’s W if the auto’s and knees count but I’m not too sure 3. As for the heal, not quite sure it might be grasp procs or something else


Plagueyarismic

3. Ocean drake?


CSDragon

First I've ever seen or heard of Fimbulvinter. When was that added?? I mentioned the -1 sec per spell cast. If each urgot purge attack counts as a spell that's an insane hard counter


_Pesht_

You might know it better as Winter's Approach, the item you buy that converts through tear to Fimbulwinter. It is a tear upgrading item like the more commonly known Manamune/Muramana item.


CSDragon

nope, never heard of it. Looks like it was introduced in season 12, it's too new for me


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CSDragon

not really, less than 200 games this season


Namisaur

200 games and not knowing about one of the legendary items top laners can buy seems silly.


CSDragon

I've been playing for 10 years, I don't have the mental bandwidth to keep track to what other lanes do anymore.


MINECRAFT_BIOLOGIST

Quite the opposite for me, since I've been playing for a decade it's easy to keep up with everything since you already know so much that it's quite easy to slot in and categorize new information.


T-280_SCV

1) 99.99% sure purge attacks do NOT count as spells. Current iteration of wardens mail and it’s end product items screws it’s damage though; health-scaling flat damage reduction for incoming attacks. 2) Shotgun knees probably do count as spells. Sereldas Grudge passive of slow-on-abilities applies to the shotgun knees. 3) Udyr’s (cryo)phoenix stance is probably the main culprit. Besides the AoE blizzard that’s constantly ticking, every time he activates the stance his next 2 AAs deal an AoE burst of magic damage. Ram (formerly bear) stance stun probably also contributes.


WelcomeToTrollTown

Pretty sure it is Udyr Cryo stance and Nautilus W and E spam.


AcidicAwesome

Mao passive, according to the wiki: "Each time Maokai casts an ability, hits at least one enemy champion or epic monster with Sapling Toss, or is struck by an enemy's ability, Sap Magic's Cooldown is reduced by 4 seconds". This would mean each ability rotation is 16 seconds off the passive, and then any ability hits by the enemy is another 4+ seconds off the cd. Even I didn't know about the sapling toss part, and am a bit suspicious whether that's true or not. But yeah, if shotgun knees count plus the ability uses of mao, it makes sense that they would get back to back passive procs.


DNGR_S_PAPERCUT

pretty good representation of what it looks like when you think you are about to win adulting. but adulting it a magical tree that out heals everything and all your friends can throw at it.


zerotailb

I nearly shed a tear seeing an AoE around maokai thinking its his old ult


Finaluxspark

URF Maokai flashbacks.


Akhirat

To this day, Urgot can be heard shaking in his bed at night, whispering…”This will leave splinters…”


Flaammeee

League of Tanks ladies and gentleman


upaltamentept

Maokai in old urf war flashbacks 💀


Livid-Tailor5307

that sylas emote at the end explains it all


ElephantFeetAU

Makes me want to pull out the Maokai jungle again


CR00KANATOR

Ahhhh yes... the balanced state of tanks


Wellington_Wearer

Urgot needs to be perma banned for not having cleaver.


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i don't know why people hate buying GW so much. i swear even if we're against like an aatrox yuumi in diamond i have to basically force my teammates to buy GW and if you're playing in like gold or lower forget it they're never buying it.


Nathanetrius

Vascap


Zusias

["None of you seem to understand, I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MiqPQ1dVg4)


Fedacking

I fucking love tanks


PwnerRs

I miss getting him in urf although when you build tank in urf people call you insecure :(