Talk:Maokai/@comment-5077844-20141110223656

Someone give me advice on how to play this dude. technically he's kinda countering almost everythign top. 9/21/0 masteries, basic Ap runeset but with AS marks for better last hitting (helps a lot). RoA into fulltank.

That part is pretty clear, but how do I do in lane without automatically pushing my lane and running out of mana. Maokai dies so easily in ganks, and even tho is combo deals loads of damage, before i get catalyst (which can be very hard if i have to trade a lot early) i have serious mana problems.

the new TU really makes me want to play him more often, but it's kinda frustrasting to fall behind in lane and be death fodder for any aggressive laner (the waveclear is still awesome tho)