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Recommended Items
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order
The Relentless Storm (PASSIVE)
Volibear Passive Ability
Introduction
Pro's
1. Very Tanky
2. Strong Initiation
3. Survives through team fights to clean up
4. Moderate Damage, while still being a tank.
5. Fantastic throughout the whole game
Con's
1. Low sustain (
Doran's Shield is great early game, but because of your massive hp it's hp regen wears off quickly and becomes almost unoticable, and you don't have any LS or SV in this build)
2. Low Damage compared to attack speed builds.
P.S You will be loved for choosing a tank in TT. =P
Personal Champion Rating 8/10 mainly because of the low sustain, but if it doesn't bother you he is a definite 10/10. Any good
Volibear will wreck the day.
1. Very Tanky
2. Strong Initiation
3. Survives through team fights to clean up
4. Moderate Damage, while still being a tank.
5. Fantastic throughout the whole game
Con's
1. Low sustain (

2. Low Damage compared to attack speed builds.
P.S You will be loved for choosing a tank in TT. =P
Personal Champion Rating 8/10 mainly because of the low sustain, but if it doesn't bother you he is a definite 10/10. Any good

Standard Tank Masteries. 9/21/0 taking all defensive traits while grabbing armor pen in offence.
If you want more CDR you can take 2 points from
Fury
and add them to
Sorcery.
FYI having
Good Hands
is essential for a tank, so you can be up more often for your team. If you don't like it, you can take that point away and put it in
Legendary Armor
If you want more CDR you can take 2 points from


FYI having


Early Game
Starting off boots and a
Doran's Shield will greatly improve your early game sustain as long as you play safe and strike with your lane partner.
The reasoning behind holding off on
Frenzy
until lvl 3 is this:
~ lvl 1
Thundering Smash for early game ganking, lvl 2
Sky Splitter is too help last hitting minions, so you are not auto attacking them the whole time. Doing that makes you an easy target for poking/ unwanted initiations. So going in for a quick
Sky Splitter improves your safe farming greatly.
And don't forget to choose either
Ninja Tabi or
Mercury's Treads depending on what you need in lane.
Example AP- if bot lane has an AP with a lot of burst, choose
Mercury's Treads to reduce their burst and CC.
Example AD- If bot lane has 2 AD's, especially ones that do a lot of auto attack damage, grab
Ninja Tabi for the armor and the 10% block for the auto attacks.
Mid-Game/Late-Game
By this point you should have your
Frozen Mallet and
Runic Bulwark. Making you a huge threat to your enemies and beloved by your allies for getting
Runic Bulwark.
At this point you should analyze your enemies thinking about what to build next. I personally go for a
Sunfire Aegis ( if the enemy team is leaning more torwards AD) or
Spirit Visage( if the enemy team is more AP heavy). Of course you can choose any of the recommended Armor or Magic Resist items. I generally choose those two because of the damage you can get from
Sunfire Aegis and the CDR from
Spirit Visage.
So after you build your Armor or MR item go on to build the next Armor or MR item(which ever one you didn't build yet). However if the enemy team is all AD, or all AP, build another Armor or MR item.
Example Against Pure AD Team-
Ninja Tabi >
Frozen Mallet >
Runic Bulwark >
Sunfire Aegis >
Thornmail >
Atma's Impaler
Example Against Pure AP Team-
Mercury's Treads >
Frozen Mallet >
Runic Bulwark >
Spirit Visage >
Banshee's Veil >
Atma's Impaler
Notice how I personally enjoy having
Atma's Impaler as close item for rounding out your damage and defense.
Here is the math why~
Atma's Impaler Increases your AD by 1.5% for your maximum health
Example Against Pure AD Team- From items you are getting 1450 hp giving you 21.75 more attack. Just an FYI this does not include your total health you would have. That is just from items.
Example Against Pure AP Team- From items you are getting 1600 hp giving you 24 more attack.
Just an FYI this does not include your total health you would have. That is just from items.
From my above standard build- From items you are getting 1650 hp giving you 24.75 more attack.
Doesnt seem like much. Let's do this, lvl 18 you have roughly 4k hp(3.8k-4k), lets see how much damage you are getting Atmas now... a whopping 60 attack damage.
So, when you buy
Atma's Impaler at lvl 18 for 2.3k gold(not to mention avarice blade will give you some of that back)essentially you are buying an item with 60 AD, 15%Crit, and 45 Armor at a fairly low price for the stats you are getting in return.
Starting off boots and a

The reasoning behind holding off on

~ lvl 1



And don't forget to choose either


Example AP- if bot lane has an AP with a lot of burst, choose

Example AD- If bot lane has 2 AD's, especially ones that do a lot of auto attack damage, grab

Mid-Game/Late-Game
By this point you should have your



At this point you should analyze your enemies thinking about what to build next. I personally go for a




So after you build your Armor or MR item go on to build the next Armor or MR item(which ever one you didn't build yet). However if the enemy team is all AD, or all AP, build another Armor or MR item.
Example Against Pure AD Team-






Example Against Pure AP Team-






Notice how I personally enjoy having

Here is the math why~

Example Against Pure AD Team- From items you are getting 1450 hp giving you 21.75 more attack. Just an FYI this does not include your total health you would have. That is just from items.
Example Against Pure AP Team- From items you are getting 1600 hp giving you 24 more attack.
Just an FYI this does not include your total health you would have. That is just from items.
From my above standard build- From items you are getting 1650 hp giving you 24.75 more attack.
Doesnt seem like much. Let's do this, lvl 18 you have roughly 4k hp(3.8k-4k), lets see how much damage you are getting Atmas now... a whopping 60 attack damage.
So, when you buy












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