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ARTHEO'S SHRINE👊BREAKER⚡VOLIBEAR🐻Top & Jungle

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Runes: VULNERABLE SHRINES

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Precision

Press the Attack

Presence of Mind

Legend: Alacrity

Last Stand

Resolve

Demolish

Second Wind

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Spells:

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VS MELEE

Ignite

Teleport

Items

TOP LANE STARTER

JUNGLE START

BASIC ITEMS

EPIC ITEMS

THE ARTHEO SPECIAL

SITUATIONAL BOOTS

OFFENSE | DEFENSE SITUATIONS

BREAKER ITEMS EARLY SUSTAIN LATER

SUSTAIN EARLY BREAKER ITEMS LATER

VS KITING SITUATIONS

VS AD OR AP SQUISHY

VS AD OR AP HASTE

OTHER SITUATIONAL BREAKER BUILDS

JAK'SHO BREAKER

KAENIC BREAKER

FROZEN BREAKER

CLASSIC BREAKER BUILDS

RIFT BREAKER

STORM BREAKER

COLOSSAL BREAKER

FIMBUL BREAKER

FUN BREAKER BUILDS

DANCE BREAKER

COSMIC BREAKER

STERAK BREAKER

SHOJIN BREAKER

DRAIN BREAKER

SUNDERED SKY BREAKER

SHADOWFLAME BREAKER

Ability Order TOP LANE ABILITY ORDER

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Volibear Passive Ability

Welcome to my SHRINE👊BREAKER⚡ Volibear🐻Guide! I'm a 3 million plus Volibearmastery one trick that has been playing for fun in college since season 2. After college, I decided to rank up, but then the rework happened.

Everyone was trying to learn the new Volibear, all the sudden I got raided by Trick2g pretty early in my journey to climb. He is widely considered the Volibear 🐐G.O.A.T. in my eyes because he was one of the first streamers and everyone learned how to play Volibear watching Trick2g.

At the time he raided me was when he was addicted to the "crack build" back when Turbo Chemtank existed into Nashor's Tooth. I tried my best to follow his instructions, which was to max E Sky Splitter first and I had a hard time breaking that habit of maxing W Frenzied Maul. After several games, I finally was able to get it right.

After stream was over, he asked if I had a mic and I said to him, I can't use it because my daughter is only a few months old and that I don't want to wake her up. I am a father of 2 kids. I have a son and a daughter. Trick2g was understanding because he has a daughter at that time. He just had his son this year. 🍻Cheers to one gamer dad to another!

What I learned from that build was how Nashor's Tooth interacted with his passive: The Relentless Storm. With Trick2g's breaching knowledge, I was able to apply what I learned into a playstyle build that destroys towers. Here's my story!⬇️

I created the SHRINE👊BREAKER name which was based on Volibear's quote "Your shrines will fall." and Volibear's story where after he fought with his brother Ornn, he made a vow to tear down all civilization and bring back the old ways to theFreljord.

Iceborn Gauntlet symbolizes who and what the Volibear is as he is from the lands just north of the Freljord. Volibear is all about true ice and lightning. This is the birth of the SHRINE BREAKER playstyle, which earned the name "STORM BREAKER" as in Volibear's lore he made a vow to tear down all civilization and false idols they call shrines, marching his way towards the ARAM bridge growing in size and power!

Iceborn Gauntlet most important stats are Spellblade with a slow ice zone that provides crowd control along with Q Thundering Smash, E Sky Splitter, and R Stormbringer limiting the enemy's ability to kite him.

Riftmaker is the most powerful for the SHRINE BREAKER playstyle, which earned the name "RIFT BREAKER" as at the beginning of the Volibear's rework, they hinted a possible canon story that is no longer canon anymore, but at the time, they hinted that he becomes corrupted or formed a duality form fusing his power with theVoid AKA the Watchers frozen in time at the ARAM bridge turning him into his form known as the Thousand-pierced Bear. Even the color of the swords in his back and the lightning was the same color as the Void. It made playing AP Volibear fun and popular to play with this skin utilizing the Void creatures on the Summoner's Rift, the Void Grubbies, the rift herald and baron nashor to tear down shrines.

So even though it is no longer canon and they decided to erase that part from history, I will still honor this playstyle as Riot has missed out on a huge opportunity to pursue a storyline between the Freljord and the Void. I will honor this because it takes place in history of the AP Volibear meta.

Riftmaker grants omnivamp while in combat at max stacks, which synergizes with Volibear's passive: The Relentless Storm allowing him to heal off the the target. The more AP he has, the more attack speed he gains, and the faster he will heal.

The SHRINE👊BREAKER name was actually created before Hullbreaker was born. Once Hullbreaker came out, it just made the playstyle even better. Back in the day, I used to build Frozen Heart, Frostfire, which is now Iceborn Gauntlet, Warmog's Armor, Sterak's Gage, and Titanic Hydra.

Ever since Hullbreaker came out, Volibear only needed 3 items to end the game. At the time of mythics using either Riftmaker or Iceborn Gauntlet into either Nashor's Tooth or Titanic Hydra or both. Then Once you had Hullbreaker + the Baron Nashor buff on the jacked supers, you were ready to go. This is what I consider to be one of my greatest SHRINE👊BREAKER⚡VOLIBEAR🐻clips. The point of this is to show you how powerful 3 items can be on Volibear. Be sure to turn the 🔊sound on.

Now that season 14 has no more mythic items, with some new additional items added, we can build literally anything with the Hullbreaker and call it a BREAKER build. The best thing about this season is we can now FUSE the STORM BREAKER and the RIFT BREAKER playstyle together. We can play Iceborn Gauntlet and Riftmaker together!

In this guide, I will show all my BREAKER builds that I am currently playing with per patch. Volibear is an incredibly versatile champion. He can go AP, AD, and Tank or even hybrid. This allows him to adapt to situational matchups. The rule when it comes to the BREAKER style, you can build whatever you want as long as you have Hullbreaker. If you love a build from another Volibear one trick, you can create a BREAKER build version of it. I love seeing what everyone else is cooking up out there on the Rift!

When I joined the Volibear main server on Discord at the time of when Volibear was reworked, there was literally an AP controversy on the server. Anyone who dared to talk about AP Volibear was hit with a command !ap (which is no longer there anymore).

As a few months rolled on, AP Volibear started to become meta. The thing about it is if it is not played in pro play or someone in high elo, they don't care. Not even Trick2g was considered a viable source of optimal Volibear builds, which was appalling to me. How could they disrespect the 🐐G.O.A.T. like that!?

It was until OYO, a famous Korean Volibear one trick starting going with Riftmaker and Hullbreaker.

Then finally the Volibear server started to listen more and be open minded to AP builds. It actually made meta thanks to those who listened to me, Trick2g, and OYO, and many others. It was no longer a meme and an actual meta to this day! I enjoyed watching countless videos grow on YouTube, but the one that caught my eye beyond appreciation was seeing this thumbnail.

Feel welcomed to join my Discord to meet some really cool Volibear players and streamers of all kinds.

This season we don't have the cookie cutter builds now that mythics are no longer a thing. We have so many options available to for the Volibear. My advice to you is to find what build helps you for situational matches and the playstyle you want to use. For my playstyle, I like to BREAK towerstop and jungle. You will find 100s of videos of me on YouTube BREAKING the Nexus towers with the 🐻BEAR👊SPECIAL! Be sure to follow me on Twitch and Subscribe on YouTube to learn how you can too win games by BREAKING👊SHRINES!

These are the Volibear streamers that I watch most of the time. I am always looking for more Volibear streamers out there, other than that, I tend to watch Volibear content onYouTube.

Trick2g plays Volibeartop. He is famous for the breach playstyle mostly playing Udyr. I have adapted my playstyle based on a lot of his. I watch his stream and study his lane phase, runes, and items vs certain champions, and most of all I try to perfect my split push macro skills.

Cookiemanman is a jungle Volibear one trick who is one of the top best in NA. He plays the standard style following the standard runes and usually recommended items to climb to high elo on. He is known for duoing with Trick2g. He reached out to me to help format a Mobafire guide. I highly recommend that you guys go over there and give an upvote.

Volibear_OYO plays Volibeartop. A lot of people tend to look up to this Korean Volibear one trick when it comes to optimal builds or introducing new items into meta. Recently he has made Unending Despair, Fimbulwinter, and Spirit Visage with Ingenious Hunter reducing the cooldown on the items. This allows Volibear to sustain and drain his enemies thanks to the ability haste on W Frenzied Maul, but also Unending Despair's insane healing + damage combo. Sometimes I will turn one of his builds into a BREAKER build with Hullbreaker.

KingKongLoL plays bothtop and jungle Volibear. He's a Wukong main, but often plays the bear when he wants to or needs to. He is usually up to date on the latest next big hot thing or builds on the champions that he plays, which is great content for all of us.

SirBerlinStyle is a German Volibear jungle one trick that I love to watch and learn from.

The legendary BrotherBerk famous for reacting to my SHRINE👊BREAKER⚡VOLIBEAR🐻 playstyle and he is the voice in my intro. I don't think there will ever be another person as good as this guy's reaction. I'm already callin it the 🐐G.O.A.T. of streamer reactions. Be sure to turn on the 🔊sound!

Press the Attack makes targets vulnerable to bonus damage and damage from all sources such as allies, minions, towers, and monsters. Volibear can easily proc Press the Attack with Q Thundering Smash, W Frenzied Maul and one basic attack.

Conqueror is also a good option if you need the extra damage and healing sustain in addition to Riftmaker's omnivamp. Good into other Conqueror users like Mordekaiser who can sustain and drag fights out.

I tend to take Triumph in the jungle since you already have decent mana sustain there and are mostly a part of team fights. That health restoration has too much value there as with Press the Attack you'll be able to get that damage from all sources in team fights and ensure a takedown health restoration. This means your allies will do more damage and if they kill the target, you will heal allowing you to stay alive to mark the next target.

I tend to take Presence of MindTop lane since mana sustain is very important there because recall times are very critical as you want to make sure you don't miss any waves or give plates for free. Every time you land your combo, you will get mana back and upon takendown, you will get mana restored. This allows Volibear to keep the pressure on the lane after killing his target.

I tend to take Legend: Alacrity the most because I want as much attack speed as I can get on Volibear, which is really good with his passive: The Relentless Storm. Not only you will be able to stack that faster, but it is also really good with either AP or AD builds. AD builds espeically lack attack speed more so than going AP since it scales with the passive. Hullbreaker and Titanic Hydra are really good with attack speed. Hullbreaker's skipper passive is every 5th attack so the more attack speed the better is why I prefer Legend: Alacrity. Legend: Tenacity I would say is good for jungle if there is a lot of CC, but generally I just build Mercury's Treads if I want tenacity.

Last Stand in my opinion is the best option here as the Volibear will likely lose some of his health before reaching targets and when he marks the target with W Frenzied Maul he can sustain himself around 50% health or so and shield himself with E Sky Splitter allowing him to use this bonus damage with Press the Attack's bonus damage.

Coup de Grace is also a good option for lower health targets. This option works really well for jungle ganking Bot lane squishy targets. I still would take Last Stand since Press the Attack should be enough damage including your allies, but it is an option if you prefer it. Whatever you do, don't ever take Cut Down as it will never work on Volibear.

Grasp of the Undying synergizes with Volibear's W Frenzied Maul since they are about the same time when they both proc, he gets double heal and damage. This keystone is to scale Volibear into the late game with scaling health damaging items like Riftmaker, titanic, and Hullbreaker. When attacking minions or monsters, Volibear will deal bonus magic damage, gain health, and heal using a basic attack or Q Thundering Smash or W Frenzied Maul.

Aftershock is also a good option that is good for engaging in team fights or diving towers. This keystone works on Volibear's Q Thundering Smash allowing him to gain bonus resistances during that time. It has good synergy with E Sky Splitter which gives him a shield after the resistances wear off. Aftershock will burst targets in the area afterwards is why it is really good with the Q and E combo.

Demolish is what makes the SHRINE BREAKER playstyle. Without it, you'll be slower at taking down shrines. It scales with health dealing physical damage to towers. Titanic Hydra, Hullbreaker, and Elixir of Iron are the best items that scale with this rune and deal bonus damage to towers.

Font of Life is an alternative option that does work on Volibear if you wish to be more of an engage team support. Shield Bash is also another option if you wish to deal more damage after recieving a shield from E Sky Splitter. Demolish will always be the supieror rune on Volibear with his ability to dive and deal damage to towers with R Stormbringer that gains health making Demolish deal more during that time. At the end of the day, the best way to win the game is by taking down towers and the Nexus!

Second Wind has the best value on Volibear because he requires up close combat to deal damage, which means he will take damage before reaching his target. Being able to regenerate some health before and after trades help him sustain between his W Frenzied Maul heals and E Sky Splitter shields.

Conditioning is a great option that I recommend swapping if you're in the jungle since you have better sustain there with the red and blue buffs.

Bone Plating can be good into heavy combo dependant trading like Riven, Aatrox, Renekton, Jax, and etc reducing the amount of burst they do in that trade. I don't really use this rune ever and think Second Wind does a good enough job, but its an alternative if you wish to take into some matchups.

Overgrowth is the best rune option when playing the BREAKER style because the more health you gain, the more you deal with Demolish, Riftmaker, Titanic Hydra, Hullbreaker, or any other health scaling item. Volibear is a champion that scales with health. This rune endlessly grows stronger into the late game and is extremely deadly on a huge jacked super minion wave giving Volibear an overwhelming amount of damage towards targets when pushing up to towers.

Revitalize is a good alternative if you're looking to constantly fight all the time or against a matchup where you need to compete with the target's healing abilities to out sustain them.

Unflinching can be a good alternative espeically if you decide to swap to Aftershock or Shield Bash or Conditioning. Whenever you get CC'd in team fights, you gain bonus resistances.

As you can see I prefer to go with Overgrowth because at the end of the day my mission with Volibear is to scale and end the game as soon as possible before some champions scale and become dangerous.

Doran's Ring grants mana regeneration, but also Volibear's passive will gain 1% attack speed at level 1 and once you have E Sky Splitter, he will deal so much burst damage. With Second Wind, W Frenzied Maul, and Grasp of the Undying healing in combination with Doran's Ring will help keep Volibear healthly in both his health and mana plus the 2 Health Potions.

THE MIKE TYSON

"THE MIKE TYSON" I call it that because Volibear punches the shrines and with Titanic Hydra its a BIG PUNCH as well as with R Stormbringer. Once you have Titanic Hydra, this is a huge power spike for Volibear. Not only you have the wave clear, the upfront damage with the delayed damage, the attack speed, but the most important part of all is his R Stormbringer gains health, which means you will deal bonus damage because Titanic Hydra scales with health. During the 12 secs, Volibear's basic attacks and Q Thundering Smash and W Frenzied Maul deals more damage. This item also deals damage to towers.

This item is also important to have in case the enemy team has taken down an inhibitor, Volibear will have the ability to push even against super minions and still take towers down in that lane.

This in combination with Demolish will deliver a BIG PUNCH to the tower and it only requires a few hits. This increases the more health you add on, which is why you want to consume Elixir of Iron, which gains health and increases Volibear's size.

THE SHRINE BUG

"THE SHRINE BUG" I call it that because it basically crashes into shrines. After Titanic Hydra you want to siege the rift herald and use the Eye of the Herald in combination with Demolish and Titanic Hydra's tower damage to take out at least 1 tower and damage another one to make it easier to take down the next time you push up.

THE JACKED SUPERS

"THE JACKED SUPERS" I call it that because Hullbreaker applies a buff to the cannon/super minions, but the super minions are what we want to destroy the Nexus shrines. We also want to seige the baron nashor buff to apply the another buff onto jacked super minions, and push them all the way to the double Nexus shrines to deliver the BIG BOOM! Stormbringer, Demolish, and Titanic Hydra will PUNCH these 2 towers down so you can end the game while everyone is busy at the Dragon.

THE BARON TOOTH

"THE BARON TOOTH" I call it that because Nashor's Tooth is literally baron nashor's tooth. At this time of the game when baron nashor spawns, you want to start building Nashor's Tooth because the baron nashor buff grants increased AD/AP and by this time, you want more attack speed utilizing Volibear's passive: The Relentless Storm to quickly BREAK the Nexus shrines with Titanic Hydra. Nashor's Tooth will scale from the bonus AP from Elixir of Sorcery, which deals true damage to enemies and shrines, Gathering Storm will keep scaling AP every 10 mins of the game only making Volibear stronger the longer the game goes on.