Volibear Counters Classic 26.22

Poison is on Volibear before he is close enough to swing, provided Noxious Trap went down on the stretch he was always going to walk. It keeps working whether he pushes on or turns around, so his health is moving before the fight starts. Teemo can keep walking backward the whole time.

Sprint speed from Move Quick belongs on the exit, since a swing from Volibear does nothing to it. Majestic Roar still puts damage and a slow on you. Frenzy adds attack speed with every repeated attack, so the longer you stand there, the faster he swings.

Put the first mushroom down where he enters, before there is any fight to react to. Then attack from range and let Toxic Shot do its four seconds of work after each hit. If he closes anyway, Move Quick gets you out, though the sprint runs three seconds and no longer.

Rolling Thunder turns Volibear's first attack into a backward throw. The third Mark of the Storm stuns him. A stun blocks that attack while it holds. Thundering Shuriken can add one mark along his approach. Volibear can still throw you while the count sits at two.

Use Thundering Shuriken to avoid a long basic-attack trade. It damages and marks Volibear. Frenzy builds attack speed through repeated attacks and unlocks its bite after three; the bite grows with your missing health. You give Frenzy that full sequence when you stand there trading.

Volibear's Thunder Claws can begin on one target and bounce to other nearby enemies. Lightning Rush lets Kennen pass through units, opening a route out of a clustered fight. End the rush away from allies. Beside one, Kennen remains another nearby enemy for the bounce.

Wave minions stop being cover once Thunder Claws is up, because his lightning bounces off the unit he hits and onto Kayle if she is standing near it. Righteous Fury holds her clear of that, adding four hundred units of reach until the ten seconds run out.

Slowing him early beats slowing him late, since Rolling Thunder runs him faster from the start and faster still on a champion chase. Reckoning strips more than half his movement speed at max rank, and Kayle does extra damage to him for those three seconds; when they are up, he is already there.

Kayle's two damage numbers feed each other through Holy Fervor, so the item raising her ability power raises what she hits Volibear with as well. Divine Blessing heals and then keeps working, since its movement speed runs ten seconds, and it can go on an ally instead of on Kayle.