Ok, so i used to otp maokai when he had double mask first strike build. Ap, saplings all over. It was glorious.
Since them, ive been struggling to find a home for my AP maokai. Ive been 2 years away and swapped to zyra and ivern. Maokai feels.... like garbage right now. Bloodletter curse helps a bit, allowing to follow some hybrid tank / ap with AH to spam saplings, but oh man, they barely reach 9s cooldown to spam them late game. Its a bit hard to find Runes for it either. Comet seems bad, Dark harvest its cool but not for poke, first strike seems like dog shoot.
I want to hear from you guys ideas for build and runes focus in poking and spamming saplings! My best shot was first strike with liandri > Curse > Mandate > cosmic drive but idk, it still seems off.
Ideas? I know its bad, but i want to make it feels lees bad