Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Aatrox Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Volibear. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Volibear helps Aatrox perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox is paired with Volibear, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Volibear does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played alongside Volibear on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Volibear.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Volibear on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Volibear does a decent job of protecting Aatrox in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Aatrox that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Volibear is a very typical teammate for Aatrox. By playing on the same side as Aatrox, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 50.5%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Aatrox and Volibear that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Volibear has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Volibear allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Aatrox players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aatrox and Volibear together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Volibear ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Aatrox and Volibear synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Volibear than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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