maokai in the jungle

It's really bugging me, but it seems maokai's Q is very unreliable on jungle monsters. I was standing overlapping gromp, q'd, and gromp didn't get knocked back. this is something I notice repeatably. it seems that with fat monsters, the knockup zone doesn't reach close enough to the monster's center... and you can't walk that close anyway...

the other thing to, before the map update you could easily jump the wall of the 2 golems by throwing a sapling and w'ing either golem, but with the new map I find this is really hard to do now. Maybe they got placed further from the wall or something? or the wall is thicker than before? I can still do it sometimes, but I have to stand in like two precise areas right next to the wall... before I could stand almost anywhere, as long as I was next to the wall.