Mid · 27 games

Volibear

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+320 gold).

Win rate: 29.6%; ±17.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #74 of 81
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 0.5%
Games: 27; ranked solo/duo

Volibear mid wins 29.6% of 27 ranked games, rank 74 of 81 mid champions (tier D). Most players finish Statikk Shiv first, at about 10:30.

The build at a glance

What most Volibear players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Statikk Shiv 11:01 · 100% · 26 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 12:48 · 70% of games

Item 2

Hextech Gunblade 17:56 · 100% · 19 games

Item 3 · late game

Shadowflame 26:06 · 9 of 20 games

Item 4 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 25:36 · 5 of 8 games

Runes

Press the Attack · Precision + Sorcery 26% of games · 0% wins All runes →

Start

Dark Seal + Refillable Potion 56% of games · 40% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 89% of games · 29% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Frenzied Maul first 78% of games · 33% wins Skill orders →

When Volibear wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′33% wins22% of games · 6

Lasts 25′ or more28% wins67% of games · 18

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Volibear games

First Baron: 70% against 6%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 6% 70% +64

First tower 9% 44% +35

First dragon 15% 43% +27

First blood 17% 40% +23

Rift Herald 25% 43% +18

First Voidgrubs 29% 30% +1

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Volibear plays

More damage to towers, fewer control wards

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More damage to towers14114 against 6819 · +107%

Fewer control wards a game0.22 against 1.01 · −78%

More time spent dead10.5s against 6.0s a minute · +74%

More deaths a game9.4 against 5.5 · +73%

More solo kills a game2.8 against 1.8 · +59%

About average: damage, share of team damage.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:30

Item 2done ~17:24

Item 3done ~22:24

Item 4done ~25:42

Most common full builds

Statikk Shiv › Sorcerer's Shoes › Hextech Gunblade › Shadowflame 50.0%8 games

Statikk Shiv › Sorcerer's Shoes › Hextech Gunblade › Stormsurge 25.0%4 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Shadowflame 38%8

Hextech Gunblade 27%11

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Dark Seal + Refillable Potion40.0%15

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion18.2%11

Doran's Ring + Dark Seal + Health Potion + Health Potion0.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~12:4826.3%19

Spellslinger's Shoes ~12:4850.0%4

Gluttonous Greaves ~5:240.0%3

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite29.2%24

Flash + Ghost100.0%1

Flash + Barrier0.0%1

Skills

Max

E33.3%21

Max

E33.3%3

Start

W36.8%19

Start

Q20.0%5

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Volibear dies 3.8 times a game (average 2.2). 61% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 23% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.8deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

61%involve the enemy junglermore than average (50%)

77%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

75%with no teammate nearmore than average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Volibear dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of mid

Ganks: 39% in their half of mid. Collapses: 41% in their half of mid. 1-v-1s: 61% in their half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Volibear

Kind of death

Volibear Average

Gank 61% (avg 50%)Collapse 17% (avg 17%)1-v-1 23% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Volibear Average

Bot laner 6% (avg 7%)Jungler 43% (avg 28%)Support 6% (avg 7%)Mid laner 41% (avg 54%)Top laner 4% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Volibear Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Volibear; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Volibear wins fights

Where fights happen

Before 14 minutes: 74 kills and 102 deaths.

Their half of mid 0.7 K/D 32 / 45

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 5 / 21

The bot-side river 1.0 K/D 8 / 8

The top-side river 1.7 K/D 10 / 6

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Volibear wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 17% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 14% when Volibear is there and 41% when not.

Volibear

What most Volibear players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 70% against 6%

More damage to towers, fewer control wards

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Volibear's games

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit their half of mid

What kills Volibear

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Where fights happen

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in their half of top lane

Where fights happen