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Volibear Build Guide by

Volibear - fling, bite 'n win

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Ability Order

Volibear Passive Ability

Introduction

Hi and welcome to my Volibear guide.
Volibear is a tanky DPS fighter of some kind. He got some basic CC and tons of damage while being tanky. At the moment he seem a little OP but hey, that's just lol.

There are many ways to play him and these are my ways:
1. Solotop - TANKY and dps
2. Jungle - DPS and tanky

Please look at item section and masteries section instead of judging my guide by the "easy to follow" thingie above this.

Pros / Cons

Pros

Cons

Runes

Volibear can use many different set of runes, as can most champions. But he benefits greatly from HP/AS/MS so let's take a look at some of our options:

Marks:
Greater Mark of Desolation

Seals:

Greater Seal of Vitality

Glyphs:

Quintessence

Greater Quintessence of Desolation

Greater Quintessence of Vigor

You are free to combine them in any way but you can se how my rune page looks:

Solotop:

Runes

Precision

Press the Attack

Lethal Tempo

Phase Rush

9x Greater Mark of Desolation helps farming and harassing.
9x Helps great against most solotop champs since they almost everytime make physical damage.
9x is just my prefrence since I won't buy much MGres.
2x is just awesome together with
1x combined with makes me very tanky at level 1

Jungler

Runes

Domination

Electrocute

Predator

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

4x Greater Mark of Desolation together with you will have 12,6 ARpen and thats enogh in jungle.
5x Works well together with
9x In jungle armor is you savior so I use this but Volibear is not limited to these.
9x As I said above, wont buy much MGres so these fit great in my build.
3x combined with Volibear can jungle withour any worries.

Masteries

Like with runes volibear have many options but here are a few working:

Solotop Tanky: Will together give you a great tanky early game and together with plus runes you will be one of the most tanky champions on the league (at level 1)

Solotop Offense:

Jungler ganker

Jungler farmer

Items

Questions:
Volibear tank?
Volibear DPS?
Volibear off-tank?
Volibear AP?

Answers:
Yes -my opinion
Yes -my opinion
Yes -my opinion
No -my opinion

With the thing above I try to easy explain that you won't find AP build's here since Volibear only scale's with 2 abilitys and not even very good on those.

Like ALWAYS with Volibear there are many different ways to go but there are some examples and guidelines:

Solotop example 1:

Start:

At first recall buy at least:
Emblem of Valour
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Second recall should look like this:

Mid game:

End game you get something like this:

If the game is still running you could sell Spirit Visage and go for this:

Solotop example 2:

Start:

1x

Then get:
Philosopher's Stone

Get working on:
/

By mid game you should have something like this:
Philosopher's Stone
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Now get these:

Full build should look like this:
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Jungle:
There are many ways to Jungle as Volibear and first you have to decide if your going to build wriggles, I personally says yes!

Start:

5x

Ganking gear up:

Before drake get (unless early):
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Core
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So basically we got 3 different "core's"
Solotop
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Philosopher's Stone

Jungle Wriggles
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Jungle NAKED
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Now, after you got the core you have to look what your against!
Is their Vayne well farmed? Maybe rush a then.
Do they stack armor? Then maybe get a

Take advantage of the fact that Volibear can be build in different ways!

List of good items

List of situational items

Why does Volibear need that? List of viable items and notes:

At solotop most champions deal physical damage therefore we want armor! Volibear needs HP and regen is important as a soloplayer so fits great!

Emblem of Valour
More regen will make you a great farmer and the lifesteal will make you far more sustained then the other solotop. At the very least you wont fall behind.

Like singed Volibear needs to move fast, you wanna catch up to your foe and use to fling him into your team.

Some prefer to use this instead, the CC reduction is great and may be the best choice to go with as tank.

CDR is a savior on those long cooldowns Volibear has and it also gives you HP which as you all know is great for Volibear. This is just the tip of the iceberg, it also grants 15% increased healing on self which works great with Volibear's passive and with .

Volibear benefits greatly from Attack Speed but the HP regen and lifesteal also synergies well with him.

Since Volibear carry loads of HP and with this build also Attack Speed you would want some AD! Since you have a tanky role you also need armor and the crit chance is just a bonus!

This synergies well with Atma's Impaler, Volibears passive and with it you will be a hard rock to hit.

Well, it kinda talk for itself. In junge you can farm faster, have greater sustain and the free ward is great! Since it is a very nice farming/sustain item plus the free ward you also have the option to go with it on solotop.

Volibear benefits from everything in this but I recommend buying CDR also because he has long cooldowns. The passive works great with all of Volibear skills and the slow is great! But expensive

Attack speed, ad and great passive. Works well with both and

HP, ad and slow. An extremely powerful item on any Volibear

Well rounded item that offers a nice amount of resistances and a second life always comes in handy.

A great item and EVERY team should have it! If no one else has it, build it! Way to good to pass up on. Every member gets a little more sustain and the HP works wonders on Volibear

When they all stack armor this is the way! (150+ armor else go with )

Do they all have a bunch of armor? Get this! AD and AS is always welcome to Volibear and the passive is great! (150 or less else go with

When the enemy team has loads of CC you should get this! MGres/HP/MP + passive. One of the best items on ANY champion by mid/late game!

Thanks to your passive you have or almost have the most active HP in the game so the passive will hurt alot on any AD carry. The armor can save your *** loads of times too!

Volibear benefits from all stats but the ap is a waste if you ask me. But kinda fun item together with [frenzy]

Attack speed is great, passive is great (more damage per hit) but I feel that you need to have to really make it shine.

More coming soon

Summoner Spells

Summoner spells are basiclly up to you but here is a list of good/decent and bad:

Good

Unless someone else in your team has it!

Decent

Bad

Here are my choices:

Solotop

Jungle

Team fight

I present two different scenarios:

River (drake):

These teamfight often starts fast and are more like a fast burst of damage to all champions.

Volibear Should engage into the first squishy foe that makes a misstake, using and to position the foe at the hands of your team. After that you have load up until you use the active to burst down.

Remember that you deal tons of damage but your main goal in the fight is to disrupt their team and handing over the squishys with .

Golden rule:
Disrupt their carry so they focus you until your team has killed them all.

Use this to throw the squishys into your team.
Make sure you always have 3 stacks in a fight and don't be afraid to help out against the carry.
Disrupt their team
Use it on the squishys you throwed as fast as it's team is in range and you will deal massive damage.

Mid
Basiclly it's the same just that here you have to be patient. Wait for their carry to make a misstake while trying to harass.

In the meantime you have to protect your carry from being jumped. If that happend you WILL use to stop their damage dealer and to disrupt the rest.

If you follow the golden rule everything should be okey.

Creeping / Jungling

Well jungeling as Volibear is a easy task, you will have decent HP at all times given that you run a standar and 5x you can go any route you want.

I recommend this:
Ancient Golem->Wolfes->Wraights->Lizard->Golems->shop/gank

Well, before you take on the jungle role you have to think if you will have to gank much/hold lanes much or actually jungle much.

Most of the time it is best to gank alot and if thats the case just go a normal jungle core/masteries/runes.

Summary

In short Volibear is a fun to play tanky DPS champion that follows the current meta like Urf follows Lee sin.

Thanks for reading my guide and please don't flame

Credits

Hey, I would like to thank people who helped me with my build!

Thanks to Thiros for item suggestions and overall help with mistakes on my last build.

Thanks to Koredar for suggesting rune changes which helped the solotop setup

Thanks to jhoijhoi for having a great guide that helps people to not have a wall of text!