Volibear·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Volibear Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Shield Bash, Second Wind and Revitalize in the primary tree, as well as Legend: Haste and Presence of Mind in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Celestial Opposition as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Heartsteel. For your last 3 items, you should build Thornmail, Spirit Visage and finish with Rod of Ages. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 45.9% winrate over 242 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Press the Attack as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Cosmic Insight with Triple Tonic in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Celestial Opposition as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Heartsteel as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - E - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 45.0% win rate across 100 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Volibear Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Cosmic Insight with Triple Tonic as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Bloodsong as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Rod of Ages as third item. The last 3 options are Navori Flickerblade, Thornmail and Spirit Visage. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 49.3% win rate over 69 matches played.

Situational Volibear Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Volibear build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.