solo kill using ult like this in a fight can lock down extra enemies instantly so it's a great way to guarantee it will land maokai's full combo is w into ultimate then q this gives you a full cc chain for around NUMBER_TOKEN seconds it's pretty much like having a malzahar alt so you can make blaze very easily by now you might have noticed his weird summoner spell choices he actually swaps summoners almost every game choosing between flash teleport ignite and even exhaust on maokai he chooses flash when he plays against cc to make sure he doesn't die from ganks but he can give up flash against some champions like assassins instead taking exhaust so that if they go in they're not going to kill him anyway he's tanky and he's reducing all of their damage he takes ignite against immobile champions letting him poke them down chase them and get a solo kill in lane teleport is another option replacing the ignite in match-ups where you just need to survive so like if he plays against the mage who has a ton of poke he can take lots of damage recall and come back to lane on full health and it's also insane for flanking later on in the game as soon as mauka gets one item he has a huge power spike and is ready to take early fights midkai doesn't actually buy a mythic item first believing the cost is too high for the stats you get since you're spending a lot of the gold on the mythic passive that doesn't give you any value until later in the game and you're also spending a lot of the gold on both armor and magic resist together rather than being a specialist in just one so he chooses to stack a lot of just one type of resistances based on the enemy team either buying randuin's omen which is NUMBER_TOKEN armor compared to the NUMBER_TOKEN armor you get on a mythic as well as giving the super strong aoe slow or he buys abyssal mask which has more health and magic resist than any mythic as well as giving seven bonus magic resist per nearby enemy so when you're in a fight it goes up even more with these stacked resistances the first fight is a huge one maokai can already tank multiple enemies and stay alive in the back line long enough for his team to roll over the fight with this build it always looks like maokai's team is just better they look like they're on the same page they're always arriving first and they're always collapsing well and this is true sometimes but a lot of the time what's actually going on is maokai can start a fight and stall for a really long time until his team are there to help he can bait enemies into bad fights even in master tier enemies see an immobile champion they may not even have flash they look for a catch in the river and try and kill him quickly before anyone arrives but maokai can stall for so long thanks to his cc dodging damage with his w and healing with his passive he can always stall long enough for his teammates to arrive in a fight to start from this point on he's basically just playing like normal maokai
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