Gwen with Volibear
How to Synergize Gwen and Volibear
based on 609 Gwen with Volibear pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Volibear
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Gwen Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Volibear. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Volibear helps Gwen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is paired with Volibear, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Volibear does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played alongside Volibear on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Volibear.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Volibear on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Volibear does a poor job of covering Gwen in teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Volibear
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Volibear is a not very good teammate for Gwen. By locking into the same side as Gwen, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 46.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Gwen and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Volibear has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players don't need to be very careful when finding Volibear teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Gwen and Volibear together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Volibear teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to pair well with Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Gwen and Volibear synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Volibear than with many other common builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside Volibear with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Gwen and Volibear pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Volibear with Gwen are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.