Volibear ARAM Mayhem Build

The Relentless Storm. A strong pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #39 of 173 champions.

APatch 26.21FighterTankNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: A
Win rate: 51.5%
Pick rate: 4.4%
Rank: #39 of 173
Games: 1,021,573
Patch: 26.21

How to play Volibear in ARAM Mayhem

Volibear is a strong pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier A, #39 of 173 champions, with a 51.5% win rate over 1,021,573 games. Riot rates it 3/10 for difficulty: easy to pick up when it lands on your bench.

Volibear's damage is mixed (48% physical, 47% magic), which makes it awkward for the enemy team to itemize against. It soaks 64,915 damage per game and mitigates another 83,940, so it belongs at the front: start fights and absorb the poke your carries can't.

The On-hit build, on-hit attack speed items, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Statikk Shiv, Dusk and Dawn and Nashor's Tooth, with a 56.9% win rate over 143,161 games. On this build 56% of players skip boots and spend the slot on another item.

The cards that do best on Volibear are Mystic Punch, BEES!!! and Back To Basics. Cards built around attack speed and on-hit fill most of the top of its list, followed by ability haste. Skip Upgrade Sundered Sky and Critical Rhythm when you can: they do worst on Volibear. A pair to look for: Ethereal Weapon with Mystic Punch.

Take Flash and Mark (94% of players). Max W (Frenzied Maul) first, then Q, then E.

Volibear ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Volibear game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

On-hit build · top ranked

56.9% win rate · 16% of Volibear games · 143,161 games

Start

Dagger
Dagger
Aether Wisp

Core items, in buying order

Statikk Shiv
Dusk and Dawn
Nashor's Tooth

Boots on the On-hit build for Volibear, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
No boots	56%
Gluttonous Greaves	19%
Mercury's Treads	16%

Situational, after the core

Riftmaker16% buy it
Shadowflame33% buy it
Rabadon's Deathcap30% buy it
Spirit Visage8% buy it
Hextech Gunblade11% buy it
Void Staff6% buy it

Other build paths

Other Volibear build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Games	Win rate
APStatikk Shiv, Dusk and Dawn, Shadowflame	11.9%	54.5%
CritHeartsteel, Dusk and Dawn, Navori Flickerblade	3.5%	53.2%
HybridStatikk Shiv, Dusk and Dawn, Hextech Gunblade	0.3%	60.1%
BruiserHeartsteel, Dusk and Dawn, Death's Dance	0.2%	49.8%

Games: the share of all Volibear games that went this way.

Most bought items

Heartsteel61% of games
Dusk and Dawn50% of games
Statikk Shiv34% of games
Spirit Visage34% of games
Unending Despair33% of games
Mercury's Treads31% of games
Warmog's Armor26% of games
Thornmail22% of games
Riftmaker19% of games
Navori Flickerblade17% of games

Best augments for Volibear

Every card with enough Volibear games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Volibear's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

1Lich BrainTier S
2Escape PlanTier S
3TyphoonTier S

S- and A-tier cards for Volibear

10 S tier and 35 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Volibear in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Mystic Punch	Prismatic	Tier S	On-Hit Effects On-Hit reduce the cooldown of your abilities by 1.25 seconds Ability Haste.
BEES!!!	Gold	Tier S	Every 15–10 (by level) seconds, your next Ability hit against an enemy champion throws a beehive at the target. Upon arriving, the hive…
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Lich Brain	Silver	Tier S	Gain (30+4% Bonus Health) Ability Power.
The Boom and the Bass	Gold	Tier S	After casting an Ability, your next Attack within 6 seconds is faster, deals Melee (50–200 (by level) +50% Bonus Attack Damage+30% Ability…
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier S	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier S	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Typhoon	Silver	Tier S	Your Attacks shoot a missile at an additional target, dealing 30% damage and applying On-Hit Effects On-Hit effects.
Heavy Hitter	Silver	Tier S	Your Attacks deal additional (3.5% Max Health) physical damage.
Steel Your Heart	Gold	Tier A	QUEST: Possess Heartsteel with 300 stacks. REWARD: Multiply Heartsteel stacks by 3.
Juiced	Silver	Tier A	On-Hit Effects On-Hit deal Melee (7% Max Mana) / Ranged (5.6% Max Mana) magic damage, this damage can Critically Strike.
Take'em Down Down Down	Gold	Tier A	Attacks and Abilities apply a stack to enemy champions for 5 seconds and deal Melee (5–30 (by level) +35% Bonus Attack Damage+15% Ability…
Ethereal Weapon	Gold	Tier A	Your Abilities apply On-Hit Effects On-Hit effects. 1 second Cooldown per target.
Tooth Fairy	Gold	Tier A	When you deal more than 25% of an enemy champion's Health in less than 2.5 seconds, they drop a Tooth. 4 seconds cooldown per target
Third Times the Harm	Prismatic	Tier A	–
Dual Wield	Prismatic	Tier A	When you Attack, fire a bolt that deals 40% damage and applies your On-Hit Effects On-Hit effects at 40% effectiveness. Gain 10% total…
Goliath	Prismatic	Tier A	Become large, gaining 35% Health and 15% Adaptive Force.
Master of Duality	Prismatic	Tier A	Your Attacks grant you 6–18 (by level) Ability Power and your Abilities that damage enemies grant you 3–9 (by level) Attack Damage. This…
Armored Impact	Gold	Tier A	After casting an Ability, your next Attack deals (50–125 (by level) +250% Bonus Armor) bonus physical damage to nearby enemies.
Upgrade Immolate	Silver	Tier A	Hollow Radiance and Sunfire Aegis grant 12 Gold per target affected with Immolate. Gain 250 Gold.
Wooglet's Witchcap	Prismatic	Tier A	QUEST: Possess Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. REWARD: Get Wooglet's Witchcap.
ADAPt	Silver	Tier A	Convert Bonus Attack Damage to Ability Power, and gain (15%) Ability Power. Converts at a rate of 1.67 Ability Power per point of Attack…
Witchful Thinking	Silver	Tier A	Gain Ability Power 20–80 (by level) Ability Power.
Sap Magic	Gold	Tier A	Every 20 seconds, your next Attack deals (80–300 (by level) +5% Bonus Health) bonus physical damage and restores (50–250 (by level) +8% Max…
Blade Waltz	Prismatic	Tier A	Makes you untargetable while you dash at and deal (30–150 (by level) +10% Bonus Attack Damage+6% Ability Power) damage to enemies 8 times…
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier A	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Zealot	Silver	Tier A	Gain (25%+5% Ability Power) Critical Strike Chance and (35%+5% Ability Power) Attack Speed.
Goredrink	Silver	Tier A	Gain 15% Omnivamp.
Warlock Juicebox	Gold	Tier A	Gain (10%+3.5% Ability Power) Omnivamp.
Urf's Champion	Prismatic	Tier A	QUEST: Score 18 takedowns. REWARD: Gain The Golden Spatula.
Fruitify	Silver	Tier A	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Transmute: Prismatic	Gold	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Prismatic Augment.
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Erosion	Silver	Tier A	Damaging enemies shreds 1.5% Armor and Magic Resist for 4s, up to 30% at 20 stacks.
Ultimate Awakening	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 30 Ultimate Ability Haste. After using your Ultimate, refresh your basic abilities and gain 300 basic ability haste for 15s. (20s…
Recursion	Gold	Tier A	Gain 60 Ability Haste.
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier A	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
Clown College	Prismatic	Tier A	Backstab: You deal (20–35 (by level) +35% Ability Power +50% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus physical damage when striking from behind. Deceive…
Symphony of War	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain the Lethal Tempo and Conqueror Keystone Runes. Lethal Tempo - Attacking champions grants Attack Speed, stacking up to 6 times. At 6…
Blue Barrier	Silver	Tier A	Gain 200–450 (by level) % of the Max Mana Mana you spend as a Shield for 1.5 seconds. Shields up to 300–800 (by level)
Ocean Soul	Silver	Tier A	Gain the Ocean Soul, granting high Health and Mana Regen after damaging enemies.
Still Here	Gold	Tier A	Gain 2% Attack Speed and 0.35% Lifesteal for each 1% of missing Health.
Deft	Silver	Tier A	Gain Attack Speed 60% Attack Speed.

Average on Volibear
64 cards, best first

Below average on Volibear
43 cards, best first

Weakest on Volibear
14 cards, best first

Best first augment for Volibear

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Volibear's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Mystic Punch, BEES!!! and Back To Basics come out on top.

The best augments for Volibear in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Mystic PunchTier S	Mystic PunchTier S	Mystic PunchTier S	Mystic PunchTier S
2	BEES!!!Tier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Lich BrainTier S
3	Back To BasicsTier S	BEES!!!Tier S	Lich BrainTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S
4	Upgrade ImmolateTier S	Tooth FairyTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Back To BasicsTier S
5	Infinite RecursionTier S	Lich BrainTier S	BEES!!!Tier S	BEES!!!Tier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Volibear, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Mark94% of players · 51.6% win rate
Ghost + Mark1% of players · 50.9% win rate
Flash + Ghost4% of players · 49.5% win rate

Skill order

WFrenzied Maul
QThundering Smash
ESky Splitter

Max W first. 45% of players use this order (53.1% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Volibear in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 10.3 / 12.1 / 24.5
KDA: 3.13
Damage to champions: 41,504
Damage taken: 64,915
Self-mitigated: 83,940
Healing on allies: 3
Shielding on allies: 0
Crowd control: 32 s
Kill participation: 64%
Game length: 16:46

Damage type

Physical 48%Magic 47%True 5%

Questions and answers

What is the best Volibear build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the On-hit build first for Volibear: Statikk Shiv, Dusk and Dawn and Nashor's Tooth. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Volibear in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Volibear, best first: Mystic Punch, BEES!!!, Back To Basics, Infinite Recursion and Lich Brain. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Volibear good in ARAM Mayhem?

Volibear is tier A on patch 26.21, #39 of 173 champions, with a 51.5% win rate over 1 million games. That makes it a strong pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Volibear in ARAM Mayhem?

For Volibear's first pick on patch 26.21: Mystic Punch, BEES!!!, Back To Basics, Upgrade Immolate and Infinite Recursion, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Volibear counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.