Talk:Maokai/@comment-5196742-20120703005207

So I know most people here are almost adverse to the idea of Athene's Unholy Grail on jungle Maokai, but hear me out; We had a game where the enemy mid laner was Karthus and the enemy top laner was Cassieopiea - she was picked to counter our Darius, which was really good on his part since he wasn't able to do much of anything at all during laning. Since they had so much stacked MR and having to camp top lane the entire game while maintaining my jungle, mid lane, bottom, and dragon control was very taxing on mana, so I decided what the heck, and got Chalice of Harmony then upgraded it.

It did so much for me. With Shurelia's and Randuin's I had 35%CDR, which is fantastic, and I was able to spam and maintain my Vengeful Maelstrom almost permenately at all times during fights, which is a huge bonus and cut their absurd DPS from ults. I still had 200AR-MR at the end of the game with 3,000HP and 150AP. End game build was;

Mercury Treads, Shurelia's Reverie, Randuin's Omen, Abyssal Scepter, Athene's Unholy Grail, Guardian Angel (Never used it, game ended once I bought it). Managed to dish out 200,000 damage over the course of the 40 minute game and tanked 40,000 damage to myself, 10k more than anyone else in the game. 16.1k gold.

I'm not saying at all you should consider always buying Athene's, but against a double-AP comp, I would definitely recommend it be done. It made me a lot tankier against them a lot earlier.