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 Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Second Wind and Revitalize in the primary tree, as well as Ingenious Hunter and Taste of Blood in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Unending Despair as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Winter's Approach. For your last 3 items, you should build Spirit Visage, Iceborn Gauntlet and finish with Thornmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - Q - E. Right now, this build has 52.4% winrate over 1 161 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 Lethal Tempo as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Demolish with Revitalize 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 Nashor's Tooth, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Riftmaker as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Hullbreaker, Spirit Visage and Jak'Sho, The Protean. The skill order for this build is W - Q - E. In the current patch, this build has a 52.1% win rate over 892 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Lethal Tempo as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Demolish with Revitalize 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 Riftmaker as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Nashor's Tooth as a third item. You want to finish the build with Hullbreaker, Spirit Visage and Jak'Sho, The Protean. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - Q - E. This build is currently sitting at a 52.3% win rate across 285 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Volibear Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Nimbus Cloak with Transcendence as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Hextech Rocketbelt as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Riftmaker as third item. The last 3 options are Nashor's Tooth, Frozen Heart and Iceborn Gauntlet. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 57.1% win rate over 70 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.