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Volibear Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 47,283 gamesUpdated

49.8%win rate2.2%pick2.4%ban

Who counters Volibear

Every Top matchup for Volibear, ranked →

How to build Volibear

Plated Steelcaps→Dusk and Dawn→Thornmail→Spirit Visage

Plated Steelcaps → Dusk and Dawn → Thornmail → Spirit Visage

54.6% win rate 8% of games 2,614 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandResolveDemolishRevitalize38% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite74%
Skills
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Thundering Smash
29101213
Frenzied Maul
34578
Sky Splitter
114151718
Stormbringer
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Volibear build →
49.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.1% over 118,267 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.8% over 47,283 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.3%at Emerald+
2.2%pick rate
2.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
52.0%under 22 min
47.8%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Volibear champion portraitT VolibearvsTahm Kench champion portraitT Tahm Kench
5 / 4 / 2

Build

Mercury's Treads|Dusk and Dawn→Navori Flickerblade

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

EQWWWRWQWQREEEE
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Volibear champion portraitT VolibearvsRiven champion portraitT Riven
4 / 1 / 3

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Black Cleaver

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

WEQWWRWQWQRQ
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Volibear champion portraitT VolibearvsShen champion portraitT Shen
1 / 9 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Dusk and Dawn→Hullbreaker

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

EQWEEREWEWRWWQQR

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.2% win rate · 38% of games · 16,477 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveDemolishRevitalize
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.6% win rate · 11% of games · 4,859 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
SorceryCelerityWaterwalking
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite74%49.9%36,211 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport11%48.6%5,297 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps45%Mercury's Treads24%Ionian Boots of Lucidity10%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 49.6% win rate

Volibear build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Dusk and Dawn1st
  2. Navori Flickerblade2nd
  3. Spirit Visage3rd
3% of games that reach a third item take this path60.3% win rate1,098 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Volibear →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 48,051 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
43% · 50.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
23% · 51.3% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
9% · 51.8% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
7% · 52.1% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
5% · 57.2% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
5% · 50.7% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Dusk and Dawn›Navori Flickerblade+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 41.8% win rate · 788 games
  2. Dusk and Dawn+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 31.1% win rate · 761 games
  3. Statikk Shiv+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 28.0% win rate · 692 games
  4. Statikk Shiv›Dusk and Dawn+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 45.4% win rate · 669 games
  5. Dusk and Dawn›Statikk Shiv+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 40.9% win rate · 462 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Volibear against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Volibear's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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