Moakai needs an update...

So one of my favorite champions has been Maokai for the longest of time and when he got the new model along with the moving ultimate I was so very happy. Though he still didn't fit into the meta. (He still doesn't)

I had read his new lore over and over, yeah I like how riot makes him seem, but his gameplay doesn't follow his "new" character. Let me give you a small summary: " Maokai was a spirit of the forest on the Blessed Isle (Shadow Isle before it was the shadow isle). After the island started to change to the shadow isles and the spirit took root in the largest oak in the forest to save some of the life of the forest and he became a treant. He then swam away from the isle to try to get help or figure out a way to heal the island."

What I am trying to say is that Maokai is suppose to be a guardian of life and nature, but again his gameplay really doesn't match the character they tried to turn him into. He still is just a mage hating angry tree. But besides that his actual gameplay just doesn't work. He is lacking the tankiness that other tanks have and he is lacking the damage that other mages have. He doesn't even work as a fighter, and you can't build him the way people build Singed. You just can't.

I am hoping to see Riot change Maokai's gameplay to fit the character and revive him in the meta, I would love to see some really different changes to him. Here are a few that might be cool:

Passive- Could mostly stay the same, but it should have a small amount of mana which would help Maokai just a bit.

Q- I have no idea what should be changed, but it really doesn't fit him anymore.

W- Instead of just a targeted engage Maokai could have the spirit leave the tree and when the spirit collides with a a champion or time runs out the tree/husk would teleport to where the spirit ends.

E- Could stay the same, but I would love to see an ammo capacity on it.

R- It works as a guardian like ability and I do like the ability, but it still seems like it needs more.