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 First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Cheap Shot and Ultimate 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 Liandry's Torment as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Imperial Mandate. For your last 3 items, you should build Bloodletter's Curse, Spirit Visage and finish with Morellonomicon. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 47.6% winrate over 529 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Stormraider's Surge as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence and Waterwalking in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Magical Footwear 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 Liandry's Torment as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Imperial Mandate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Bloodletter's Curse, Spirit Visage and Unending Despair. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 54.1% win rate across 157 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, Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Legend: Haste with Triumph as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then finish Mercury's Treads as your second item, and Spirit Visage as third item. The last 3 options are Thornmail, Unending Despair and Bandlepipes. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 45.1% win rate over 102 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.