Mao'Kai's New Ultimate, Nature's Grasp feels underwhelming

I've only played him a few times since the update but his ult just feels lack luster. Especially when people just walk away from it and outrun it. The only time I've ever landed it on someone was when I TP flanked the enemy team who was running away from our fed Sej, and even then it only caught 2 people.

Hopefully Mao might get some buffs in an upcoming patch, because his kit, aside from the saplings, was nerfed and his is basically without an ult atm

Like you know who designed this ult?? It was that guy from Prometheus who was trying to outrun the spaceship when all he had to do was run to the side a little. Now he can just walk, not even run, in the opposite direction of this thing and get away no problem