Smolder·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Smolder Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Fleet Footwork as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, as well as Gathering Storm and Transcendence in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Trinity Force as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Spear of Shojin. For your last 3 items, you should build Rapid Firecannon, Lord Dominik's Regards and finish with Guardian Angel. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 30.6% winrate over 111 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Smolder Jungle build would be to take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Gathering Storm with Transcendence in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Ability Haste in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health in defense. The items for the build are Essence Reaver, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Spear of Shojin as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Rapid Firecannon, Lord Dominik's Regards and Immortal Shieldbow. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 28.4% win rate over 74 matches.

Situational Smolder 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 Smolder 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.