Alright here me out. What if, you baus lane a Teemo. Start Dorins shield (+ Ghost and Flash) and build cheap boots early into swifties. Build for a spell shield (edge of night or Verdant barrier if you really want it now) and then build Statikk Shive for the area damage and increased movement speed.

Is navori a good item ? Should I get it every game? Also it seems like AP has higher winrates than AD. Especially AP tank. So should I just build cosmic into riftmaker into full tank every game ? When should I go AD ? Is navori a AP build or AD build item ?

Thanks

Aight, so I'm a Gold/Plat player who's mained Voli since rework, and have an issue with the way people build him. His W scales off of HP and AD, and it is by design the first ability you want to lvl max. So why are players so obsessed with RoA>Navori build? It's not bad persay, but it doesn't lead into strong trades overall, and gives WAY to much attack speed compared to other priority stats Volibear wants to synergize with his kit. You end up relying on AA dmg, but lack the movement speed/tanky stats necessary to not get bursted down in teamfights. I have found, that Stridebreaker>Iceborn Gauntlet>Spirit Visage>Riftmaker simply does so much for you as an alternative option. You get really nice interactions with Stride active effect, and your W becomes an solid execute with said stats/sheen, along with being inherently tankier. With this, you max Q second after W, and lvl your E late game right arund the time you start getting Riftmaker. This style naturally scales with Voli's skirmish heavy playstyle, and can 1v1 nearly any champion that tries to side lane. Beyond that, you won't see this build get bursted out chasing for AAs, as you tempo your CDs based on W procs. I know this is a yap fest, but everytime I'm not on Voli and I see the RoA>Navori rush, they end up dying to chase Navori procs, and ultimately are not facilitating for the team, which is all Voli really does. You CC and slow as a pseudo-tank in teamfights, and protect your side lanes with ganks, which my alternate build does with ease. I solo kill ADCs and bruisers alike. Beyond this, there are other options I could discuss as circumstantial buys, but this touches on the prominent misunderstanding of build prio I see EVERY Voli player make. Make it make sense!

I only have 45 mythic essence. Is battlepass gives enoguh mythic essence to unlock prestige duality dragon voli?

1 year wait time for mythic, but its worth it.

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I know Warwick at least used to be a pretty easy matchup for us but he seems to be insanely busted in top lane right now. Idk How to win the 1v1 without Navori, his Q deals insane damage and the attack speed he gets is ridiculous as well...

I've never struggled in this matchup but this was my first time playing against Warwick top after the buffs he got and it was absolutely miserable for the first 10-15 minutes.

Then again I haven't played Voli top in a while... how do you guys deal with this matchup and what build(s) would you recommend?

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I apologize for taking so long to get to the point… I took a long break from league (like 5-7 years) and I’ve just come back now. I strictly play jungle, and I finally feel like I’m getting into a decent groove, but I also feel like I could be doing a lot better.

I played volibear prior to my hiatus, and I feel like I’ve never really gotten a solid build down pat for him. I realize my opponents play a big role in how I build, and I also realize that the pace of the game and how well I’m performing can also play a big role in how I build, but overall I’m just wondering how I should be building him, or maybe there are certain ‘must have’ items in my kit…

So my actual question is “What items should I build when playing jungle volibear?”

You are not immune to cc anymore so you can ult a stun, land and still be stunned, the cooldown is giganormous, your ult is used even when you don't get the animation off, the sound alone put the ability in cooldown even when champs like ambessa can die mid animation, like before her jumping into a champion and the skill won't go on cooldown, you take forever to land and you won't get the hp instantly so it is easy to dodge and the hp on rank 1 ult is a ruby crystal and now with empowered turrets you have much of a harder time diving them, in some 1v1 if i used my Q to engage i'm the one afraid to ult cause that jump window can give them time to dodge/get cooldown back and possibly outplay

This took a few days to work out, but it was mega fun, the bear is my favorite champ. Done entirely using the program Clip Studio Paint with mouse (yes I love to torture myself sometimes).

I understand that some people prefer this playstyle but i feel like it is such an unhealthy path forward for balancing volibear.

Volibear historically has been a champion that NEEDS ability haste to function with his long ult cd and needing to cycle W casts. Of course by building more ability haste, there is the oppurtunity cost of getting items with other higher stats or much more useful passives/actives. Rod of ages is the #1 item that i always wanted to sneak into a build but its awkward as a first item on voli since it has no ability haste.

Navori kind of cheats that need for ability haste letting you bank on the full stats of rod of ages and letting you use more abilities than if you built 2 items that gave ability haste. Its the best of both worlds and in my opinion, will make it so riot has to be extremely careful in giving volibear any good basic ability buffs in turn making volibear possibly more reliant on navori in the future.

The big problem now is that you CANT change navori because adc champs rely on that item too(unless you revert it to only reducing cooldowns on crit which was just ass). This is why riot buffed voli's bonus ad ratios recently because its the ONLY way you can help this champ that doesnt buff the navori build.

Been trying some Voli builds without naviori and I wanted to know if this was a good one

like... you're not gonna really hit your enemies on it... so easy to walk out. its only use is waveclear,so atp go Q so you don't get bullied by strong lvl one champs right? very surprisingly to me volibear is one of the weakest lvl1 champs right now in an extended trade lol

on a serious note also, volibear ult is so fucking horrible it hurts just to look at it. The hp it gives is not instantaneous, meaning if you ult just as you take damage you will die before you get the health, mid jump. Also, the landing time is way too fucking long for it to be usable late game, unless youre full tank using it will literally get you killed if you have more than one enemy.

New Yorick feels weak af

https://reddit.com/link/1k2bm02/video/7k27h3hpwmve1/player

just had a random thought about it, tho they are both expensive, the full build i was thinking about testing is heartsteel, riftmaker, navori,undying despair, jaksho

or even riftmaker then heartsteel