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Volibear Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,575 gamesUpdated

49.2%win rate0.2%pick2.4%ban

Who counters Volibear

How to build Volibear

Spellslinger's Shoes→Statikk Shiv→Hextech Gunblade→Shadowflame

Spellslinger's Shoes → Statikk Shiv → Hextech Gunblade → Shadowflame

51.4% win rate 19% of games 498 games
RunesPrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandResolveDemolishRevitalize18% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite80%
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 →
49.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 46.6% over 12,022 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.2% over 3,575 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
46.7%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
2.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
57.0%under 22 min
46.0%over 32 min

Volibear Mid gets worse as the elo rises. 49.2% across Silver and above, but 46.7% once you look at Emerald and up. Sites that only sample high elo will show you the second number. Both are real; which one applies depends on the games you are actually playing.

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 30–35m
MASTER+
Volibear champion portraitM VolibearvsAurelion Sol champion portraitM Aurelion Sol
17 / 12 / 3

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Statikk Shiv→Hextech Gunblade→Stormsurge→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EQWWWRWQWQRQQEEREE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Volibear champion portraitM VolibearvsSylas champion portraitM Sylas
15 / 3 / 1

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Statikk Shiv→Hextech Gunblade→Rabadon's Deathcap→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

EQWWWRWQWQRQQEERE
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Volibear champion portraitM VolibearvsFizz champion portraitM Fizz
4 / 12 / 4

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Hextech Gunblade→Statikk Shiv→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EQWWWRWQWQRQQEER

Runes

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

Most popular 48.3% win rate · 18% of games · 474 games
PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveDemolishRevitalize
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.3% win rate · 11% of games · 294 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 + Ignite80%49.1%2,990 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport10%47.0%362 games

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

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes52%Chainlaced Crushers20%Armored Advance10%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 48.4% win rate

Volibear build

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

  1. Hextech Gunblade1st
  2. Statikk Shiv2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
9% of games that reach a third item take this path53.7% win rate231 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Volibear →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 3,685 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
50% · 48.4% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
19% · 46.2% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
10% · 52.0% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
8% · 61.9% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
5% · 53.0% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
3% · 53.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Gunblade›Statikk Shiv+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 38.1% win rate · 168 games
  2. Hextech Gunblade›Statikk Shiv›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 52.7% win rate · 110 games
  3. Statikk Shiv+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 35.2% win rate · 105 games
  4. Statikk Shiv›Hextech Gunblade+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 38.1% win rate · 63 games
  5. Statikk Shiv›Hextech Gunblade›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 53.4% win rate · 58 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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