Maokai·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Maokai Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Phase Rush as your keystone, followed by Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Waterwalking in the primary tree, as well as Cheap Shot and Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Hollow Radiance as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Frozen Heart. For your last 3 items, you should build Thornmail, Kaenic Rookern and finish with Knight's Vow. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 53.1% winrate over 179 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Phase Rush as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Waterwalking in the primary tree, and Cheap Shot with Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Ability Haste, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Frozen Heart as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Abyssal Mask and Spirit Visage. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 48.6% win rate across 105 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Maokai Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Waterwalking as your primary rune tree, and Cheap Shot with Ultimate Hunter as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Knight's Vow as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Locket of the Iron Solari as third item. The last 3 options are Anathema's Chains, Frozen Heart and Hollow Radiance. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 50.0% win rate over 52 matches played.

Situational Maokai Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Maokai build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.