In this guide I will teach you how to jungle, build, and play Volibear

Volibear is a very good jungler, perhaps even one of the best mostly because of his Thundering Smash and Sky Splitter combo to speed you up, and slow the enemies.

• Fast champion due to Thundering Smash, making it easy to gank.
• Benefits from HP items thanks to Frenzy .
• Has an Area of effect slow: Sky Splitter.
• High damage.
• Passive The Relentless Storm heals you a lot, similar to Maximum Dosage

• High CoolDown durations.
• Fairly easily kited.
• Melee/No gap closers.

Runes

Runes

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

The runes for Volibear can vary somewhat, however my favorite build would have to be:

• 9x Greater Mark of Attack Damage: The attack damage helps a lot for clearing jungle camps.
  
  
• 9x Greater Seal of Armor: The Armor also helps for early game Jungling, for when you Gank Attack Damage Carries, and Team Fights.
  
  
• 9x Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: The Magic Resist helps for Ganking Ability Power Carries, and late game Team Fights.
  
  
• 3x Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed: The movement speed helps a lot when ganking and to quickly pursue someone with your Thundering Smash.

Spells

• Flash is recommended in my guide because of the sheer fact it's possibly the best escape spell.
  
  
• Smite Do I need to explain this? Every jungle absolutely must have smite, if you want to replace one of these spells replace flash.
  
  
• Ghost is a good spell to have to quickly gain ground with Thundering Smash.
  
  
• Exhaust is actually viable for Volibear because it can slow someone down long enough to catch them as well as reduce their damage for a short duration.
  
  
• Heal is a very great spell this season, given the fact that it heals you as well as briefly increasing your movement speed it's a great spell to have.
  
  
• Teleport is actually a viable spell for junglers right now, having this will allow you to get into a team fight when your team needs you and the ability to split push and still be there for your team.

Items

Item Sequence

Mercury's Treads 1250

Statikk Shiv 2700

Frozen Mallet 3100

• Wriggle's Lantern is probably the best item possible for Volibear because of the attack speed and bonus magic damage on hit from the Feral Flare upgrade.
  
  
• Mercury's Treads are probably the best boot choice because of the tenacity, however if you're against heavy auto attackers then grab Ninja Tabi and if you're against heavy slows then grab Boots of Swiftness.
  
  
• Statikk Shiv works extremely well with the passive of your Frenzy as well as Feral Flare to deal tons of damage.
  
  
• Frozen Mallet is a great item to have for the slowing effect along with the HP it gives, making you tanky even without any resistance items.

Gameplay - Jungling, Ganking, and Team fights

Gameplay - Early game Jungle

First off grab your Hunter's Machete Sweeping Lens and 5 Health Potions. To start go to your blue buff, then to your wolf camp then red buff. Now either gank a lane or continue farming jungle by going to wraiths, wolves and finally wraith at this point you should either gank or go back (preferably gank at least once by now).

After you gank/farm if you're low health go back to base, if it was a good gank pick up Madred's Razors keep farming your jungle as much as you can while ganking lanes when necessary, try not to skip any camps if you can kill them because you want the big minion stacks for your Wriggle's Lantern.

Mid game

Around now people will start roaming which can often mean enemies will be trying to invade your jungle more. buying Stealth Wards can help prevent getting killed while farming your jungle. It's generally a good idea to help your team when they're pushing a lane together so if they are then group up with them and engage fights with your Thundering Smash when you feel like it's a good timing.

Late game

Now everyone should be done farming their lanes for the most part and the team fights should start happening. you'll want to initiate team fights now that you have Frozen Mallet, use your Thundering Smash ability to initiate, use your Blade of the Ruined King when you're near enemy so you can quickly get to them with Thundering Smash and after your Blade of the Ruined King wears off use your Sky Splitter to slow them again. Remember to use Thundering Smash to also throw enemies away from your allies if they're dying.