No worries , thanks for letting me know <| sep |> I ' m just telling you from personal experience . I ' m a darius main and I can pick pretty much anything into him and win because of how well I know the ins and outs of him . The only high mana cost on maokai is his w by the way . In fact maokai q costs less then darius q . Also the common starting items for maokai is rod of ages or sunfire into iceborn so you have plenty of mana to trade with . On top of the fact that maokai is great to gank for because of the cc like you said . As long as you don ' t fuck your skills up you can ' t get all in as well due to all 3 of your basic abilities having cc . Now you won ' t necessarily kill him in lane by yourself unless he messes up but he shouldn ' t be able to outright zone you from cs unless you really fucked up .