Volibear

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Comp identity — Top

Leans Attack — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Attacknatural · 70%
Catchworkable · 50%
Splitworkable · 50%
Volibear brings the frontline and engage that start the 5v5. Enough Catch and Split sits in the kit to punish a caught enemy before the fight starts. Passive Lightning Claws chains bonus magic damage to up to 4 nearby enemies at 5 stacks.

Kit quirks

Passive Lightning Claws chains bonus magic damage to up to 4 nearby enemies at 5 stacks
W Frenzied Maul marks Wounded then deals bonus damage + heals off missing health on a second hit
R grants ghosting, up to 525 bonus HP, and disables enemy turrets on impact
Q (Thundering Smash)'s empowered-attack window cancels early and instantly refunds its own cooldown if Volibear is hit by an immobilize (stun/root/knockup) or Polymorph while it's active, so hard CC punishes the ability less than it looks like it should.

How Volibear actually performs in ranked solo queue · 33 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Top49% WR · 28.4 games
Jungle51% WR · 3.2 games
Mid50% WR · 1.6 games
Bot50% WR · 0.3 games
Support50% WR · 0.1 games

Strongest duos

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Best matchups

No favored matchups recorded.

Hardest matchups

No losing matchups recorded.

Champion reference

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Volibear — The Relentless Storm

Class: Juggernaut
Resource: Mana
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Physical
Positions: Top
Released: 2011-11-29 (V1.0.0.130)
Last changed: V26.19
Price: 675 BE · 585 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	650	+104	2418
Health regen (per 5s)	9	+0.75	21.75
Mana	350	+70	1540
Mana regen (per 5s)	6.25	+0.5	14.75
Armor	35	+5.2	123.4
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	65	+3.5	124.5
Attack speed	0.625	+2%	0.863
Attack speed ratio	0.7
Attack range	150
Movement speed	340

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 400
Selection height: 180
Selection radius: 125
Pathing radius: 50
Gameplay radius: 80
Attack delay offset: 0

Arena: armor per level -1

One for All: damage dealt ×0.9 · damage taken ×1.1 · shielding ×0.8

URF: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.1 · healing ×0.8

Abilities

Passive

The Relentless Storm

Effect radius: 450

Innate: Whenever Volibear damages at least one enemy with a basic attack or ability, he generates a stack of The Relentless Storm for 6 seconds, refreshing on subsequent damage and stacking up to 5 times. At 5 stacks, Volibear gains Lightning Claws.

The Relentless Storm: For each stack, Volibear gains 5% (+ 4% per 100 AP) bonus attack speed, up to 25% (+ 20% per 100 AP).

Lightning Claws: Volibear's claws ignite with lightning, empowering his basic attacks on-hit to deal 11 – 68 (based on level) (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 45% AP) bonus magic damage to the target and the nearest visible enemy within 450 units of the target, chaining up to 4 subsequent targets.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: Not BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: Not Blocked

Notes (6)

Volibear's spikes visually grow as The Relentless Storm stacks.
Stacks of The Relentless Storm are also granted on-hit, but will specifically not be if the target is invulnerable.
While at four stacks, the next attack or ability on-hit reaching the fifth stack will be empowered by Lightning Claws.
A stack of The Relentless Storm is not gained if the attack is dodged and/or missed if Volibear is blinded. A stack is granted even if the attack is blocked. In all cases, Lightning Claws will not apply (on-hit damage is parried and the bounce is prevented).
Since Frenzied Maul cannot be missed while Volibear is blinded, gaining stacks from The Relentless Storm and applying Lighting Claws from the ability will not be prevented from that parry effect.
The empowered attacks do not affect structures nor wards.

Map-specific differences (1)

Lightning AP ratio changed to 35% AP.

Thundering Smash

Cost: 50 ManaCooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10Cast time: noneEffect radius: 2000Queue threshold: 0.5Attack windup time: 0.4 (- 0.1 per 100% bonus attack speed)

Active: Volibear drops on all fours, becoming ghosted and gaining bonus movement speed for 4 seconds, doubled while facing a nearby visible enemy champion.

Bonus Movement Speed: 12 / 15.5 / 19 / 22.5 / 26%
Increased Bonus Movement Speed: 24 / 31 / 38 / 45 / 52%

During this time, Volibear's next basic attack has a modified windup time and is empowered to have an uncancellable windup, gain 25 bonus range, and pounce on the target, dealing bonus physical damage and stunning them for 1 second. This damage applies life steal.

Bonus Physical Damage: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+ 160% bonus AD)

If Volibear becomes immobilized or polymorphed by an enemy during Thundering Smash, the effect ends prematurely and the cooldown is reset.

Thundering Smash resets Volibear's basic attack timer.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: DrawnSpell shield: BlockedParries: BlockedGrounded: Not DisabledKnockdown: See Notes

Notes (10)

Thundering Smash's bonus damage cannot critically strike; the base damage of the attack can, however.
Despite this, Randuin's Omen's Resilience reduces Thundering Smash's total damage.(bug)
Thundering Smash deals basic damage, but also triggers spell effects by also being tagged as spell damage.
Thundering Smash will still apply its effects to the target even if the dash is interrupted, but not if he goes into resurrection.
Thundering Smash's attack triggers against structures and wards, consuming the effect but dealing its bonus damage, if applicable.
The windup for the attack completes even if the target becomes untargetable but the stun and damage do not apply.
The player's screen will flash red briefly and cue a sound effect when Volibear becomes immobilized while Thundering Smash is active.
Thundering Smash's attack does not put Volibear's basic attack on cooldown.
This results in the same functionality as Leona's Shield of Daybreak and Shyvana's Emberstrike, effectively being a double attack reset.
If Thundering Smash's buff appears as the first on the buff bar, the empowered attack will fail against structures.(bug)

Map-specific differences (2)

Bonus AD ratio changed to 60% bonus AD.
Cooldown changed to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds.

Frenzied Maul

Cost: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 ManaCooldown: 5Cast time: 0.25Target range: 325 • 350

Active: Volibear slashes the target enemy with his claws to deal physical damage, apply on-hit effects, trigger on-attack effects, and mark the target Wounded for 8 seconds.

Physical Damage: 5 / 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 (+ 110% AD) (+ 6% of his bonus health)

Wounded Bonus: If the target is already Wounded, Volibear takes a bite out of them instead, dealing 50% (+ 25% per 100 bonus AD) increased damage and healing himself. The heal is halved against minions.

Heal: 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+ 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20% of his missing health)
Minion Heal: 10 / 17.5 / 25 / 32.5 / 40 (+ 4 / 5.5 / 7 / 8.5 / 10% of his missing health)

Frenzied Maul applies life steal.

Targeting input: UnitTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target unit to castAffects: Enemies, SelfDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: DrawnSpell shield: BlockedParries: See Notes

Notes (7)

Volibear will be ordered to basic attack the target after casting Frenzied Maul.
Frenzied Maul deals basic damage, but also triggers spell effects by also being tagged as spell damage.
Frenzied Maul's bite heals even if it is blocked by spell shield.
Frenzied Maul's strike can be dodged and blocked, but it cannot miss if Volibear is blinded. The Wound mark does not apply if dodged, but will otherwise do so regardless.
The bite can be blocked but Volibear still heals. It does not heal nor deal damage if the bite is dodged. The bite cannot miss if Volibear is blinded.
Frenzied Maul deals bonus damage and heals if the target is still Wounded after the cast time. If the mark wears off before the cast time completes, the ability's animation will appear as if the bite was applied but there is no bonus damage or heal.
If the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time, this ability will cancel but does not go on cooldown nor pay its cost (if applicable).

Map-specific differences (3)

Damage health ratio changed to 5% of his bonus health.
Base heal changed to 10 / 25 / 40 / 55 / 70.
Heal health ratio changed to 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14% of his missing health.

Sky Splitter

Cost: 50 ManaCooldown: 16Cast time: noneTarget range: 1200Effect radius: 325 • 425

Active: Volibear summons a lightning bolt to strike at the target location after a 2-second delay, granting sight of the area for 1 second after the first second of the delay. If Volibear is within the strike, he gains a shield equal to 14% of his maximum health (+ 75% AP) for 3 seconds.

The bolt deals magic damage to enemies hit, capped against non- champions, and slows them by 40% for 2 seconds.

Magic Damage: 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 (+ 70% AP) (+ 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15% of target's maximum health)
Non-Champion Capped Damage: 150 / 265 / 380 / 495 / 610 (+ 70% AP)

Targeting input: LocationTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target location to castAffects: Enemies, SelfDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: Blocked

Notes (3)

Enemies cannot see the location of the cast for the first second, but they can already tell that the spell is underway by noticing Volibear's cast animation.
Volibear can cast Sky Splitter during the movement speed boost from Thundering Smash to prevent the animation from playing.
Volibear will receive the shield even if he is untargetable.

Map-specific differences (6)

Shield health ratio changed to 11% of his maximum health.
Base damage changed to 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160.
Damage AP ratio changed to 70% AP.
Damage health ratio changed to 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13% of target's maximum health.
Shield AP ratio changed to 65% AP.
Shield health ratio changed to 11% of maximum health.

Stormbringer

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 160 / 135 / 110Cast time: noneTarget range: 700Effect radius: 300 • 500 • 700Speed: 750

Active: Volibear gains Stormbringer for 12 seconds and leaps to the target location with displacement immunity over 1 second, granting sight of the area in a 500 radius during the travel.

Stormbringer: Volibear gains ghosting, bonus health, 50 bonus attack range, 25 increased range on Frenzied Maul, and 35% increased size.

Bonus Health: 175 / 350 / 525

Volibear impacts after 1 second, slowing nearby enemies by 50% decaying over 1 second. Enemies within the epicenter are also dealt physical damage.

Physical Damage: 300 / 500 / 700 (+ 250% bonus AD) (+ 125% AP)

Volibear also disables enemy turrets in an area for a duration, rendering them unable to attack, as well as dealing them the same damage.

Turret Disable Duration: 2 / 3 / 4 seconds

Thundering Smash's duration will be paused for the leap.

Targeting input: LocationTarget out-of-range override: Target at maximum range (clamped)Affects: Enemies, SelfDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: PhysicalSpell shield: BlockedGrounded: DisabledKnockdown: Not Interrupted

Notes (11)

Stormbringer will disable any turret that is not the Nexus Obelisk, even if it is untargetable.
Stormbringer will not deal damage to untargetable turrets.
Volibear grows to his new size over 1.25 seconds, starting 0.25 seconds after landing, and shrinks back to his normal size over 0.5 seconds after Stormbinger's status ends, respectively.
Volibear leaps over 1 second regardless of distance or movement speed.
Volibear impacts immediately at his current location if Stormbringer is cast over terrain he cannot pass through (due to not being able to cover the distance required).(bug)
The additional bonuses are granted on-cast.
The turret disable debuff is named Ohmwrecker.
Disabling a turret does not prevent aggro of the current target it is locked onto. The increased turret shot damage from Ohmwrecker is also reset.
Turrets maintain the same targeting behavior even when disabled; damaging an enemy champion will still draw turret aggro. However, if the turret's desired target leaves range or has become an invalid target, it will lock onto the most previous target it was going to attack prior to becoming disabled, or instead, find a new one if that condition is not applicable.
The following table refers for interactions while Volibear is dashing:
Death

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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Kit quirks

Passive Lightning Claws chains bonus magic damage to up to 4 nearby enemies at 5 stacks

W Frenzied Maul marks Wounded then deals bonus damage + heals off missing health on a second hit

R grants ghosting, up to 525 bonus HP, and disables enemy turrets on impact

Q (Thundering Smash)'s empowered-attack window cancels early and instantly refunds its own cooldown if Volibear is hit by an immobilize (stun/root/knockup) or Polymorph while it's active, so hard CC punishes the ability less than it looks like it should.

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Volibear — The Relentless Storm

Class: Juggernaut
Resource: Mana
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Physical
Positions: Top
Released: 2011-11-29 (V1.0.0.130)
Last changed: V26.19
Price: 675 BE · 585 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	650	+104	2418
Health regen (per 5s)	9	+0.75	21.75
Mana	350	+70	1540
Mana regen (per 5s)	6.25	+0.5	14.75
Armor	35	+5.2	123.4
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	65	+3.5	124.5
Attack speed	0.625	+2%	0.863
Attack speed ratio	0.7
Attack range	150
Movement speed	340

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 400
Selection height: 180
Selection radius: 125
Pathing radius: 50
Gameplay radius: 80
Attack delay offset: 0

Arena: armor per level -1

One for All: damage dealt ×0.9 · damage taken ×1.1 · shielding ×0.8

URF: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.1 · healing ×0.8

Abilities

Passive

The Relentless Storm

Effect radius: 450

The Relentless Storm: For each stack, Volibear gains 5% (+ 4% per 100 AP) bonus attack speed, up to 25% (+ 20% per 100 AP).

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: Not BlockedParries: See NotesProjectile: Not Blocked

Notes (6)

Volibear's spikes visually grow as The Relentless Storm stacks.
Stacks of The Relentless Storm are also granted on-hit, but will specifically not be if the target is invulnerable.
While at four stacks, the next attack or ability on-hit reaching the fifth stack will be empowered by Lightning Claws.
A stack of The Relentless Storm is not gained if the attack is dodged and/or missed if Volibear is blinded. A stack is granted even if the attack is blocked. In all cases, Lightning Claws will not apply (on-hit damage is parried and the bounce is prevented).
Since Frenzied Maul cannot be missed while Volibear is blinded, gaining stacks from The Relentless Storm and applying Lighting Claws from the ability will not be prevented from that parry effect.
The empowered attacks do not affect structures nor wards.

Map-specific differences (1)

Lightning AP ratio changed to 35% AP.

Thundering Smash

Cost: 50 ManaCooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10Cast time: noneEffect radius: 2000Queue threshold: 0.5Attack windup time: 0.4 (- 0.1 per 100% bonus attack speed)

Active: Volibear drops on all fours, becoming ghosted and gaining bonus movement speed for 4 seconds, doubled while facing a nearby visible enemy champion.

Bonus Movement Speed: 12 / 15.5 / 19 / 22.5 / 26%
Increased Bonus Movement Speed: 24 / 31 / 38 / 45 / 52%

Bonus Physical Damage: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+ 160% bonus AD)

If Volibear becomes immobilized or polymorphed by an enemy during Thundering Smash, the effect ends prematurely and the cooldown is reset.

Thundering Smash resets Volibear's basic attack timer.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: See NotesDamage sub-types: PhysicalMinion Aggro: DrawnSpell shield: BlockedParries: BlockedGrounded: Not DisabledKnockdown: See Notes

Notes (10)

Thundering Smash's bonus damage cannot critically strike; the base damage of the attack can, however.
Despite this, Randuin's Omen's Resilience reduces Thundering Smash's total damage.(bug)
Thundering Smash deals basic damage, but also triggers spell effects by also being tagged as spell damage.
Thundering Smash will still apply its effects to the target even if the dash is interrupted, but not if he goes into resurrection.
Thundering Smash's attack triggers against structures and wards, consuming the effect but dealing its bonus damage, if applicable.
The windup for the attack completes even if the target becomes untargetable but the stun and damage do not apply.
The player's screen will flash red briefly and cue a sound effect when Volibear becomes immobilized while Thundering Smash is active.
Thundering Smash's attack does not put Volibear's basic attack on cooldown.
This results in the same functionality as Leona's Shield of Daybreak and Shyvana's Emberstrike, effectively being a double attack reset.
If Thundering Smash's buff appears as the first on the buff bar, the empowered attack will fail against structures.(bug)

Map-specific differences (2)

Bonus AD ratio changed to 60% bonus AD.
Cooldown changed to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds.

Frenzied Maul

Cost: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 ManaCooldown: 5Cast time: 0.25Target range: 325 • 350

Active: Volibear slashes the target enemy with his claws to deal physical damage, apply on-hit effects, trigger on-attack effects, and mark the target Wounded for 8 seconds.

Physical Damage: 5 / 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 (+ 110% AD) (+ 6% of his bonus health)

Heal: 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+ 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20% of his missing health)
Minion Heal: 10 / 17.5 / 25 / 32.5 / 40 (+ 4 / 5.5 / 7 / 8.5 / 10% of his missing health)

Frenzied Maul applies life steal.

Notes (7)

Volibear will be ordered to basic attack the target after casting Frenzied Maul.
Frenzied Maul deals basic damage, but also triggers spell effects by also being tagged as spell damage.
Frenzied Maul's bite heals even if it is blocked by spell shield.
Frenzied Maul's strike can be dodged and blocked, but it cannot miss if Volibear is blinded. The Wound mark does not apply if dodged, but will otherwise do so regardless.
The bite can be blocked but Volibear still heals. It does not heal nor deal damage if the bite is dodged. The bite cannot miss if Volibear is blinded.
Frenzied Maul deals bonus damage and heals if the target is still Wounded after the cast time. If the mark wears off before the cast time completes, the ability's animation will appear as if the bite was applied but there is no bonus damage or heal.
If the target becomes untargetable, dies, or is too far away or no longer in sight during the cast time, this ability will cancel but does not go on cooldown nor pay its cost (if applicable).

Map-specific differences (3)

Damage health ratio changed to 5% of his bonus health.
Base heal changed to 10 / 25 / 40 / 55 / 70.
Heal health ratio changed to 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14% of his missing health.

Sky Splitter

Cost: 50 ManaCooldown: 16Cast time: noneTarget range: 1200Effect radius: 325 • 425

The bolt deals magic damage to enemies hit, capped against non- champions, and slows them by 40% for 2 seconds.

Magic Damage: 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 / 200 (+ 70% AP) (+ 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15% of target's maximum health)
Non-Champion Capped Damage: 150 / 265 / 380 / 495 / 610 (+ 70% AP)

Targeting input: LocationTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target location to castAffects: Enemies, SelfDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: Blocked

Notes (3)

Enemies cannot see the location of the cast for the first second, but they can already tell that the spell is underway by noticing Volibear's cast animation.
Volibear can cast Sky Splitter during the movement speed boost from Thundering Smash to prevent the animation from playing.
Volibear will receive the shield even if he is untargetable.

Map-specific differences (6)

Shield health ratio changed to 11% of his maximum health.
Base damage changed to 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160.
Damage AP ratio changed to 70% AP.
Damage health ratio changed to 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13% of target's maximum health.
Shield AP ratio changed to 65% AP.
Shield health ratio changed to 11% of maximum health.

Stormbringer

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 160 / 135 / 110Cast time: noneTarget range: 700Effect radius: 300 • 500 • 700Speed: 750

Active: Volibear gains Stormbringer for 12 seconds and leaps to the target location with displacement immunity over 1 second, granting sight of the area in a 500 radius during the travel.

Stormbringer: Volibear gains ghosting, bonus health, 50 bonus attack range, 25 increased range on Frenzied Maul, and 35% increased size.

Bonus Health: 175 / 350 / 525

Volibear impacts after 1 second, slowing nearby enemies by 50% decaying over 1 second. Enemies within the epicenter are also dealt physical damage.

Physical Damage: 300 / 500 / 700 (+ 250% bonus AD) (+ 125% AP)

Volibear also disables enemy turrets in an area for a duration, rendering them unable to attack, as well as dealing them the same damage.

Turret Disable Duration: 2 / 3 / 4 seconds

Thundering Smash's duration will be paused for the leap.

Notes (11)

Stormbringer will disable any turret that is not the Nexus Obelisk, even if it is untargetable.
Stormbringer will not deal damage to untargetable turrets.
Volibear grows to his new size over 1.25 seconds, starting 0.25 seconds after landing, and shrinks back to his normal size over 0.5 seconds after Stormbinger's status ends, respectively.
Volibear leaps over 1 second regardless of distance or movement speed.
Volibear impacts immediately at his current location if Stormbringer is cast over terrain he cannot pass through (due to not being able to cover the distance required).(bug)
The additional bonuses are granted on-cast.
The turret disable debuff is named Ohmwrecker.
Disabling a turret does not prevent aggro of the current target it is locked onto. The increased turret shot damage from Ohmwrecker is also reset.
Turrets maintain the same targeting behavior even when disabled; damaging an enemy champion will still draw turret aggro. However, if the turret's desired target leaves range or has become an invalid target, it will lock onto the most previous target it was going to attack prior to becoming disabled, or instead, find a new one if that condition is not applicable.
The following table refers for interactions while Volibear is dashing:
Death

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.