Volibear
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NABans, presence and fearless: Volibear across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 4.2%picked in 111 of 2,644 games
- Ban
- 4.3%84 bans over 1,958 games, against 1.0% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,664 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 215,636 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.DraftLength
- How to play itLethal Tempo, then Dusk and Dawn, Navori Flickerblade, and Spirit Visage: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compAbsorbs damage first: absorbs more than 97% of top laners.FrontlineTeamfight
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 4.3%
- SoloQ
- 1.0%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.5 min
- SoloQ
- 27.9 min
How to play it?
Lethal Tempo, then Dusk and Dawn, Navori Flickerblade, and Spirit Visage: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesLethal Tempo46% · 3,268
SpellsFlash + Ignite60% · 4,297
SkillsWnot collected in soloQ- Dusk and Dawn
- Navori Flickerblade
- Spirit Visage
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Absorbs damage first: absorbs more than 97% of top laners.
- Absorbs damagetop3%1,766 · top laners: 970
- Plays teamfightstop25%55% · top laners: 53%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- Frontline
- Teamfight
Like other top laners
- Damage in lane
- Damage in mid game
- Damage in late game
- Takes its kills in duels
- Crowd control (CC)
What it is not
- Little damage
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 31 in lane, 30 in mid game and 36 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 86% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 31 of 100 among top laners580 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 30 of 100 among top laners833 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 36 of 100 among top laners1,017 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 20 of 100 among top laners-310 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 14 of 100 among top laners-574 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 97 of 100 among top laners1,766 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 75 of 100 among top laners55% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 30 of 100 among top laners25% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 79 of 100 among top lanersrank 79 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 69 of 100 among top laners1 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 18 of 100 among top laners17% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
- Xayah5 games—SoloQ: 41.3% · 179 g
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+1.4%6,203 picks of 431,266ban 1.0% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments1.2%45 picks of 3,686ban 4.3% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.5%10 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
4.1% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Top- 1.8%G113 games of 733
- 2.2%G216 games of 733
- 2.2%G3+7 games of 316
Not enough series yet: published from 30.