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Volibear
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Volibear

Verified across 3 sourcesLast updated · 2026-05-26
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Overview

last updated 2026-05-26
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“Again, I'll probably do a video next week talking about it. But I think the problem with the Novori quick blades build is that uh team fights don't really last long enough for you to get enough value with Novori quick blades on a frontline tank like Volibear cuz when you're jumping in or when you're trying to do damage to the enemy AD carry, you either need to be a really big tank to try and tank a lot of damage, which of course the Nvari quick blades volleybear build doesn't really do because you're focusing more on damage rather than tankiness. or you need to try and ones on one-shot them and you're not going to oneshot them unfortunately with a very quick blades. So you need these longer team fights which wild rift unfortunately doesn't really do but overall his tank version of the build is still very strong when you jump into the back line it takes a lot a long time for enemies to deal with your damage.”
— itzstu4rt · patch 7.1b · (14:49)
Open questions (4)
  1. 01~~Build path~~ — answered for 7.1d/7.1E in [[#Build (Jungler.GG, 7.1d)]] and [[#Build (WR Meta, 7.1E)]] (2026-05-26)
  2. 02~~Rune setup~~ — answered alongside builds above (2026-05-26)
  3. 03Power-spike timings
  4. 04Specific matchups
02

Tier history

10 entries · 3 sources · 3 patches
PatchSourceRoleTierΔDateNotes
7.1ehellsdeviljungleA−22026-05-19—
7.1ehellsdevilbaronS++12026-05-19—
7.1eroyaljungleC−22026-05-17—
7.1eroyalbaronA=2026-05-17—
7.1ditzstu4rtjungleB·2026-05-08—
7.1ditzstu4rtbaronA·2026-05-08—
7.1droyaljungleA·2026-05-08—
7.1droyalbaronA·2026-05-08—
7.1hellsdeviljungleS·2026-05-08—
7.1hellsdevilbaronS·2026-05-08—
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Builds

2 sources + cross-source synthesis
Jungler.GGaggregator statspatch 7.1d
WR49.01%PR4.33%BR4.01%
Items (in order)
Heartsteel
HeartsteelIncrease Maximum Health
  • +700 Max Health
  • +150% Health Regen
  • +20 Ability Haste

Colossal Consumption: While within 700 units of an enemy champion, charges for 2.5 seconds before dealing a huge strike against the enemy champion. This charged attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 140 + 3.5% of maximum Health, and grants maximum Health equal to 15% of the damage dealt. The charge for each target has a 20 second cooldown.

3000 gold
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Plated Steelcaps
Plated SteelcapsReduces Physical Damage
  • +150 Max Health
  • +50% Health Regen
  • +20 Armor
  • +45 Move Speed.
900 gold
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Trinity Force
Trinity ForceWell-Rounded
  • +333 Max Health
  • +30 Attack Damage
  • +30% Attack Speed
  • +20 Ability Haste

Fervor: +5% Move Speed.

Spellblade: Using an ability causes the next attack used within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to 200% base AD(1.5s Cooldown). Damage is reduced vs structures.

Valor: Attacks grant 20 Move Speed for 2 seconds. Bonuses do not stack. Ranged champions gain halved values.

3333 gold
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Unending Despair
Unending DespairIncreases tanks' sustain in teamfights
  • +200 Max Health
  • +45 Armor
  • +45 Magic Resistance

Anguish: Every 4 second(s) while in combat with a champion, deal 3% of your max Health as magic damage to nearby champions and heal for 250% of the damage dealt. Anguish is unaffected by Item Ability Haste.

3000 gold
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Titanic Hydra
Titanic HydraAttacks deal bonus damage in a area
  • +450 Max Health
  • +40 Attack Damage

Cleave: Every 1.75 second(s), your next attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 25 + 3% bonus (also applies to turrets), creating a shockwave that deals physical damage equal to 80 + 10% bonus to enemies behind the target. Ranged champions deal 75% of the damage.

3000 gold
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Hollow Radiance
Hollow RadianceDeals damage in an area
  • +400 Max Health
  • +40 Magic Resistance
  • +15 Ability Haste

Immolate: While in combat, deal magic damage equal to 20–30 plus 1% of bonus per second for 5 second(s) to nearby enemies. Deals 125% damage against monsters and 200% damage against minions.

Desolate: Killing a neutral monster or an enemy deals magic damage equal to 30 plus 2% of bonus in an area around them.

2800 gold
Runes
Grasp of the Undying
KeystoneGrasp of the Undying
Grasp of the UndyingKeystone

Entering combat generates one stack every second for the next 3 seconds. Additional stacks may be generated by re-entering combat after 2 seconds. After reaching 4 stacks, your next basic attack within 6 seconds against an enemy champion consumes all stacks to deal 2% of your maximum health in bonus magic damage, restore 2.5% of your maximum health, and permanently grant 10 bonus health. The empowered attack duration refreshes whenever going in combat. On ranged champions, all effects are reduced by 40%.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Demolish
DemolishMinor · Resolve

When within 550 range of an enemy turret, gain a charge every 0.5s, up to 6 times. When fully charged, your next attack against the turret deals an additional 200 + 30% Max HP physical damage. (35s cooldown)

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Unshakeable
UnshakeableMinor · Resolve

Gain 4% Armor and Magic Resist. For every 1 enemy champion nearby, gain an additional 3% Armor and Magic Resist. If the max number of enemy champions are nearby (max: 3), you also gain 20% Slow Resist.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Second Wind
Second WindMinor · Resolve

Gain 5 health every 5 seconds. After taking damage from an enemy champion regenerate 6 (+2% of your missing health) over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Bone Plating
Bone PlatingMinor · Resolve

Blocks damage from the next triggering champion attack and 2 more attacks.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Overgrowth
OvergrowthMinor · Resolve

When 1 monster or 2 minions are killed nearby, permanently gain 3 Max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains bonus 3% Max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Perseverance
PerseveranceMinor · Resolve

Gain 10% tenacity. While immobilized, gain 15 - 25 armor and magic resistance for 1.5 seconds. Refresh duration when immobilized multiple times.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Brutal
BrutalMinor · Precision

Attacks deal 6 (+ 8% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Last Stand
Last StandMinor · Precision

When health is lower that 60%, attacks launched at enemy champions deal 5-11% bonus adaptive damage.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Skill priority
Q›W›E
Spells
FlashFlashIgniteIgnite

Source: [[Sources/web-pages/2026-05-26-junglergg-volibear-build-7.1d|Jungler.GG]] · sampling: mid-to-high-elo ranked games.

WR Metaaggregator statspatch 7.1E
WR49.73%PR4.66%BR2.63%
Items (in order)
Heartsteel
HeartsteelIncrease Maximum Health
  • +700 Max Health
  • +150% Health Regen
  • +20 Ability Haste

Colossal Consumption: While within 700 units of an enemy champion, charges for 2.5 seconds before dealing a huge strike against the enemy champion. This charged attack deals bonus physical damage equal to 140 + 3.5% of maximum Health, and grants maximum Health equal to 15% of the damage dealt. The charge for each target has a 20 second cooldown.

3000 gold
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Plated Steelcaps
Plated SteelcapsReduces Physical Damage
  • +150 Max Health
  • +50% Health Regen
  • +20 Armor
  • +45 Move Speed.
900 gold
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Trinity Force
Trinity ForceWell-Rounded
  • +333 Max Health
  • +30 Attack Damage
  • +30% Attack Speed
  • +20 Ability Haste

Fervor: +5% Move Speed.

Spellblade: Using an ability causes the next attack used within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to 200% base AD(1.5s Cooldown). Damage is reduced vs structures.

Valor: Attacks grant 20 Move Speed for 2 seconds. Bonuses do not stack. Ranged champions gain halved values.

3333 gold
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SE
Stoneplate EnchantShield

Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 15% of max Health. Every 1 bonus Armor or Magic Resistance you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 35%. The shield decays over 4s. (60s Cooldown) For every enemy nearby, gain an additional shield that absorbs damage equal to 5% of max Health, capped at 3 enemies. Every 1 bonus Armor or Magic Resistance you have increases the shield by 0.1%, up to 12%. Damage dealt is reduced by 40% for 4s.

500 gold
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Unending Despair
Unending DespairIncreases tanks' sustain in teamfights
  • +200 Max Health
  • +45 Armor
  • +45 Magic Resistance

Anguish: Every 4 second(s) while in combat with a champion, deal 3% of your max Health as magic damage to nearby champions and heal for 250% of the damage dealt. Anguish is unaffected by Item Ability Haste.

3000 gold
›
Hollow Radiance
Hollow RadianceDeals damage in an area
  • +400 Max Health
  • +40 Magic Resistance
  • +15 Ability Haste

Immolate: While in combat, deal magic damage equal to 20–30 plus 1% of bonus per second for 5 second(s) to nearby enemies. Deals 125% damage against monsters and 200% damage against minions.

Desolate: Killing a neutral monster or an enemy deals magic damage equal to 30 plus 2% of bonus in an area around them.

2800 gold
Runes
Grasp of the Undying
KeystoneGrasp of the Undying
Grasp of the UndyingKeystone

Entering combat generates one stack every second for the next 3 seconds. Additional stacks may be generated by re-entering combat after 2 seconds. After reaching 4 stacks, your next basic attack within 6 seconds against an enemy champion consumes all stacks to deal 2% of your maximum health in bonus magic damage, restore 2.5% of your maximum health, and permanently grant 10 bonus health. The empowered attack duration refreshes whenever going in combat. On ranged champions, all effects are reduced by 40%.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Demolish
DemolishMinor · Resolve

When within 550 range of an enemy turret, gain a charge every 0.5s, up to 6 times. When fully charged, your next attack against the turret deals an additional 200 + 30% Max HP physical damage. (35s cooldown)

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Second Wind
Second WindMinor · Resolve

Gain 5 health every 5 seconds. After taking damage from an enemy champion regenerate 6 (+2% of your missing health) over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Perseverance
PerseveranceMinor · Resolve

Gain 10% tenacity. While immobilized, gain 15 - 25 armor and magic resistance for 1.5 seconds. Refresh duration when immobilized multiple times.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Brutal
BrutalMinor · Precision

Attacks deal 6 (+ 8% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions.

Source: wildriftfire.com/rune-list (maintained by iTzSTU4RT, scraped 2026-05-18)

Skill priority
W›Q›E
Spells
FlashFlashIgniteIgnite

Source: [[Sources/web-pages/2026-05-26-wrmeta-volibear-build-7.1e|WR Meta]] · sampling: Diamond / Master / Challenger (Legendary tier).

Situational item swaps (explicit):

  • Plated Steelcaps → Mercury's Treads — depending on the situation
  • Boots first item — if significantly increases the mobility
  • Titanic Hydra — as alternative for area damage
  • Thornmail — against heavy auto-attack damage and sustain
  • Frozen Heart — against attack speed reduction needs
  • Randuin's Omen — against crit-heavy builds

Counters / threats: Vayne, Karma, Pantheon, Teemo, Jax, Akali, Aurora (extreme/major threats)

Build divergence notescross-source synthesis

Consensus across both aggregators

  • Keystone: Grasp of the Undying (both)
  • Core items: Heartsteel, Plated Steelcaps, Trinity Force, Hollow Radiance (all four match across both sources)
  • Summoner spells: Flash + Ignite (both)
  • Skill order: differ — Jungler.GG runs Q > W > E, WR Meta runs W > Q > E

Where the aggregators diverge

  • Item differences: Jungler.GG → Unending Despair, Titanic Hydra, Hollow Radiance (items 4-6). WR Meta → Stoneplate Enchant, Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance (items 4-6); Titanic Hydra moves to a situational swap.
  • Late-game flex: WR Meta enumerates an explicit situational pool (Mercury's Treads, Titanic Hydra, Thornmail, Frozen Heart, Randuin's Omen) and a counters list; Jungler.GG publishes one canonical build with no swaps.
  • Skill priority disagreement: Jungler.GG leads Q; WR Meta leads W. Cross-check with a creator VOD before committing.
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Commentary

verbatim creator quotes
itzstu4rtauto· Auto-extracted commentary (iTzSTU4RT, 7.1b)
patch 7.1b

Generated by /wr-extract from iTzSTU4RT's patch 7.1b video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1b analysis (iTzSTU4RT) sections above. Baron "Um you can split push, you can use your ultimate during team fights and you can still do quite a bit of damage. Uh, Volibear, I tried his Novori quick blades build. I just don't think I think there's a lot of things." (14:42) "Again, I'll probably do a video next week talking about it. But I think the problem with the Novori quick blades build is that uh team fights don't really last long enough for you to get enough value with Novori quick blades on a frontline tank like Volibear cuz when you're jumping in or when you're trying to do damage to the enemy AD carry, you either need to be a really big tank to try and tank a lot of damage, which of course the Nvari quick blades volleybear build doesn't really do because you're focusing more on damage rather than tankiness. or you need to try and ones on one-shot them and you're not going to oneshot them unfortunately with a very quick blades. So you need these longer team fights which wild rift unfortunately doesn't really do but overall his tank version of the build is still very strong when you jump into the back line it takes a lot a long time for enemies to deal with your damage." (14:49) Jungle "His tanky version of the build is definitely stronger, but he's not as strong of a carry compared to um these other Then moving down into B tier, these are just more of like the unique champions that you can play. the likes of Fura, Ireelia, Yona, um, Darius, you know, Gwen, Fizz, you know, I would say these are more unique. Oh, and Volibear as well. These are more unique champions which are probably stronger in other lanes like Fiora top lane, Ireelia top and mid, Yona mid lane, Daryus top lane, Volibear top lane." (36:22) "Fiora as well also quite a lot of players that still play Fiora jungle. Volibear as well with hot steel being able to use his ultimate um to his to his advantage being able to just tower dive very very easily. Um and Gwen just has a very very strong late game with how much you're able to farm and you know once you get Nash's Tooth and everything as well." (36:43)

itzstu4rtauto· Baron
patch 7.1b·baron

“Um you can split push, you can use your ultimate during team fights and you can still do quite a bit of damage. Uh, Volibear, I tried his Novori quick blades build. I just don't think I think there's a lot of things.”(14:42)

“Again, I'll probably do a video next week talking about it. But I think the problem with the Novori quick blades build is that uh team fights don't really last long enough for you to get enough value with Novori quick blades on a frontline tank like Volibear cuz when you're jumping in or when you're trying to do damage to the enemy AD carry, you either need to be a really big tank to try and tank a lot of damage, which of course the Nvari quick blades volleybear build doesn't really do because you're focusing more on damage rather than tankiness. or you need to try and ones on one-shot them and you're not going to oneshot them unfortunately with a very quick blades. So you need these longer team fights which wild rift unfortunately doesn't really do but overall his tank version of the build is still very strong when you jump into the back line it takes a lot a long time for enemies to deal with your damage.”(14:49)

itzstu4rtauto· Jungle
patch 7.1b·jungle

“His tanky version of the build is definitely stronger, but he's not as strong of a carry compared to um these other Then moving down into B tier, these are just more of like the unique champions that you can play. the likes of Fura, Ireelia, Yona, um, Darius, you know, Gwen, Fizz, you know, I would say these are more unique. Oh, and Volibear as well. These are more unique champions which are probably stronger in other lanes like Fiora top lane, Ireelia top and mid, Yona mid lane, Daryus top lane, Volibear top lane.”(36:22)

“Fiora as well also quite a lot of players that still play Fiora jungle. Volibear as well with hot steel being able to use his ultimate um to his to his advantage being able to just tower dive very very easily. Um and Gwen just has a very very strong late game with how much you're able to farm and you know once you get Nash's Tooth and everything as well.”(36:43)

hellsdevilauto· Auto-extracted commentary (hellsdevil, 7.1e)
patch 7.1e

Generated by /wr-extract from hellsdevil's patch 7.1e video transcript. Re-running this skill OVERWRITES this section. Promote keepers into your hand-written ## Patch 7.1e analysis (hellsdevil) sections above. Baron "So for kill for example, it means you either pick her into assassins or you pick her when you have one champion in your team that dives the enemy. For example, you have a Volibear jungle, Riven jungle, VI jungle, atrox jungle. So if you have like a um if you have a Z jungle, you don't want to pick kill, you know, that's the type of stuff I'm talking about." (04:27)

hellsdevilauto· Baron
patch 7.1e·baron

“So for kill for example, it means you either pick her into assassins or you pick her when you have one champion in your team that dives the enemy. For example, you have a Volibear jungle, Riven jungle, VI jungle, atrox jungle. So if you have like a um if you have a Z jungle, you don't want to pick kill, you know, that's the type of stuff I'm talking about.”(04:27)

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Patch notes

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