Volibear·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Volibear Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Press the Attack as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Jack Of All Trades and Triple Tonic in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Rod of Ages as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Navori Flickerblade. For your last 3 items, you should build Spirit Visage, Unending Despair and finish with Thornmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 54.3% winrate over 6 211 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Volibear Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Second Wind and Revitalize in the primary tree, and Legend: Haste with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Rod of Ages, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Navori Flickerblade as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Spirit Visage, Unending Despair and Jak'Sho, The Protean. The skill order for this build is W - Q - E. In the current patch, this build has a 53.5% win rate over 5 335 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Second Wind and Revitalize in the primary tree, and Legend: Haste with Presence of Mind in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Unending Despair as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Winter's Approach as a third item. You want to finish the build with Spirit Visage, Thornmail and Navori Flickerblade. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 56.9% win rate across 4 409 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Volibear Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Triple Tonic with Jack Of All Trades as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Riftmaker as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Navori Flickerblade as third item. The last 3 options are Guinsoo's Rageblade, Spirit Visage and Unending Despair. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 54.9% win rate over 1 613 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.