Volibearvs Swain
Volibear vs Swain is a decisive matchup in LoL patch 26.10. Swain wins with a 63.6% win rate (+27.3%) over Volibear based on 11 games. Swain holds the advantage in both the early and late game. Below you'll find the best Volibear build, runes, laning stats, and strategies for the Volibear vs Swain matchup.
Volibear Matchup Breakdown
Use the dropdown to select an opponent and see a detailed breakdown of how Volibear performs against them. You'll get head-to-head win rates, laning stats, the best build and runes for the matchup, and early vs late game analysis — all based on real ranked data.
Who Wins the Volibear vs Swain Matchup?
Volibear vs Swain Matchup Summary
The Volibear vs Swain matchup is a decisive matchup in League of Legends ranked play. Based on 11 recent matches analyzed, Swain wins with a 63.6% win rate compared to Volibear's 36.4%, giving Swain a 27.3 percentage point advantage. Swain dominates at every stage — from early laning through late game team fights. This consistent advantage makes it difficult for Volibear players to find favorable windows, so team-dependent strategies and avoiding solo confrontations are essential. The most significant statistical gap is in crowd control, where Swain leads by 0.7s CC/min — a difference that heavily influences the outcome of trades and skirmishes. Swain has a strong advantage in this matchup. Volibear players should play defensively, prioritize safe farming under tower, and look for opportunities created by jungle pressure or Swain overextending. Avoid prolonged trades and wait for team fights where positioning and coordination matter more. Understanding these matchup dynamics is essential for champion select decisions and in-game strategy when facing this lane opponent.
Volibear vs Swain Laning Phase Breakdown
Volibear is favored during the laning phase against Swain, winning 4 out of 5 key stat categories. Volibear holds advantages in farming, damage, gold income and sustain, making them the stronger laner in this matchup.
Best Volibear Build Against Swain
Gluttonous Greaves is the optimal boots choice against Swain, providing the mobility and stats Volibear needs most in this matchup. The top-performing core items for Volibear against Swain are Hullbreaker, Statikk Shiv and Spirit Visage. This combination gives Volibear an effective balance of damage, survivability, and utility for the matchup. This build performs exceptionally well, achieving a 100.0% win rate across 1 games — well above average and making it the top item path against Swain. Adjustments may be needed based on team compositions and game state, but this build provides the strongest foundation for the Volibear vs Swain matchup.
Early Game vs Late Game
Volibear25.0%
Swain75.0%Volibear42.9%Swain57.1%Swain dominates the early game (first 15 minutes) with a commanding 75.0% win rate — a 50.0 percentage point lead over Volibear. This lopsided early game means Swain can dictate the pace of the lane from level 1, controlling trades, wave state, and river priority.
Swain is far superior in the late game (25+ minutes), boasting a 57.1% win rate — 14.3 points above Volibear. Extended games heavily favor Swain, whose kit and scaling make them a dominant force in team fights and objective control.
Swain holds the advantage at every stage of the game, making this a consistently favorable matchup from lane through late game team fights. Volibear players should look for outplays, team-dependent strategies, and picks rather than relying on scaling to win this matchup.
Best Volibear Runes Against Swain
Precision
Resolve
The Precision and Resolve rune setup gives Volibear the best tools to compete against Swain in this difficult matchup, compensating for the statistical disadvantages with optimal rune synergies.
Volibear matchup data for League of Legends patch 26.10. The table below shows Volibear's win rate, gold difference, and performance stats against every champion in the current meta. Click any champion name to see a detailed head-to-head breakdown including the best Volibear build, runes, laning stats, and early vs late game analysis for that specific matchup.
Opponent | Win Rate | Matches | CS/min | DMG/min | Gold/game | Early WR | Late WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54.15% | 253 | 1.5 | 701 | 12,371 | 51.7% | 56.2% | |
| 48.28% | 232 | 1.8 | 632 | 11,721 | 45.8% | 50.4% | |
| 47.44% | 215 | 1.4 | 637 | 11,834 | 43.3% | 50.9% | |
| 52.36% | 212 | 5.5 | 872 | 12,192 | 53.2% | 51.7% | |
| 53.17% | 205 | 1.3 | 663 | 12,558 | 56.3% | 51.2% | |
| 53.50% | 200 | 5.4 | 842 | 11,728 | 58.7% | 49.1% | |
| 41.49% | 188 | 1.1 | 622 | 11,928 | 41.4% | 41.6% | |
| 47.06% | 187 | 6.5 | 843 | 11,724 | 45.8% | 48.4% | |
| 45.95% | 185 | 6.2 | 938 | 11,996 | 45.1% | 46.6% | |
| 44.00% | 175 | 4.0 | 692 | 11,592 | 40.8% | 46.5% | |
| 48.28% | 174 | 1.1 | 673 | 11,853 | 55.4% | 41.8% | |
| 41.61% | 161 | 5.3 | 667 | 11,744 | 39.1% | 43.3% | |
| 58.23% | 158 | 2.1 | 766 | 11,791 | 61.0% | 55.6% | |
| 50.32% | 155 | 1.4 | 667 | 11,952 | 48.0% | 52.5% | |
| 40.00% | 130 | 1.1 | 581 | 11,755 | 36.2% | 43.1% | |
| 42.62% | 122 | 5.1 | 1,146 | 11,760 | 37.0% | 47.1% | |
| 53.10% | 113 | 6.2 | 835 | 12,126 | 55.8% | 50.8% | |
| 53.15% | 111 | 1.1 | 683 | 12,862 | 55.1% | 51.6% | |
| 39.25% | 107 | 5.6 | 765 | 11,595 | 37.7% | 40.7% | |
| 50.94% | 106 | 1.4 | 636 | 11,683 | 52.1% | 50.0% | |
| 40.38% | 104 | 1.1 | 633 | 11,676 | 50.0% | 32.8% | |
| 49.50% | 101 | 1.5 | 604 | 12,774 | 50.0% | 49.2% | |
| 44.00% | 100 | 5.4 | 907 | 12,577 | 40.0% | 46.7% | |
| 50.00% | 98 | 6.3 | 888 | 11,520 | 37.5% | 58.6% | |
| 44.21% | 95 | 5.7 | 896 | 11,951 | 41.9% | 46.1% | |
| 52.13% | 94 | 6.4 | 960 | 12,280 | 52.4% | 51.9% | |
| 48.91% | 92 | 1.3 | 622 | 11,878 | 55.8% | 42.9% | |
| 51.09% | 92 | 5.0 | 872 | 12,100 | 45.7% | 54.4% | |
| 43.48% | 92 | 2.4 | 591 | 11,241 | 38.5% | 47.2% | |
| 50.00% | 88 | 6.4 | 1,022 | 11,799 | 64.1% | 38.8% | |
| 59.52% | 84 | 4.0 | 827 | 12,109 | 52.3% | 67.5% | |
| 50.60% | 83 | 5.7 | 892 | 11,956 | 50.0% | 51.0% | |
| 50.62% | 81 | 6.1 | 843 | 12,760 | 48.6% | 52.2% | |
| 50.00% | 80 | 2.0 | 685 | 12,050 | 50.0% | 50.0% | |
| 51.90% | 79 | 1.0 | 632 | 11,353 | 52.3% | 51.4% | |
| 46.15% | 78 | 2.1 | 805 | 12,753 | 38.7% | 51.1% | |
| 55.13% | 78 | 1.2 | 624 | 11,295 | 47.6% | 63.9% | |
| 46.75% | 77 | 6.2 | 792 | 12,542 | 45.2% | 47.8% | |
| 48.65% | 74 | 5.5 | 994 | 11,630 | 38.9% | 57.9% | |
| 43.06% | 72 | 6.1 | 804 | 12,227 | 48.4% | 39.0% | |
| 45.71% | 70 | 5.4 | 778 | 12,055 | 40.6% | 50.0% | |
| 39.13% | 69 | 4.7 | 956 | 12,216 | 41.4% | 37.5% | |
| 58.21% | 67 | 4.0 | 764 | 12,544 | 65.4% | 53.7% | |
| 41.79% | 67 | 5.8 | 727 | 11,720 | 35.7% | 46.1% | |
| 52.31% | 65 | 4.6 | 897 | 12,186 | 51.9% | 52.6% | |
| 50.79% | 63 | 6.5 | 853 | 11,931 | 51.7% | 50.0% | |
| 56.45% | 62 | 7.0 | 879 | 11,835 | 60.0% | 51.9% | |
| 38.71% | 62 | 1.3 | 629 | 12,408 | 45.5% | 35.0% | |
| 53.23% | 62 | 2.1 | 691 | 12,295 | 46.4% | 58.8% | |
| 55.00% | 60 | 1.2 | 673 | 12,928 | 52.4% | 56.4% | |
| 36.67% | 60 | 6.2 | 726 | 11,907 | 45.8% | 30.6% | |
| 60.34% | 58 | 1.5 | 668 | 12,854 | 83.3% | 44.1% | |
| 43.10% | 58 | 1.6 | 717 | 11,909 | 41.4% | 44.8% | |
| 42.11% | 57 | 6.0 | 1,083 | 12,934 | 52.4% | 36.1% | |
| 62.50% | 56 | 3.5 | 570 | 11,547 | 51.6% | 76.0% | |
| 53.70% | 54 | 0.8 | 541 | 10,978 | 40.0% | 65.5% | |
| 47.17% | 53 | 6.2 | 868 | 11,571 | 31.8% | 58.1% | |
| 47.06% | 51 | 4.8 | 645 | 11,073 | 59.1% | 37.9% | |
| 60.00% | 50 | 5.2 | 875 | 12,647 | 65.4% | 54.2% | |
| 47.83% | 46 | 1.8 | 736 | 13,812 | 52.9% | 44.8% | |
| 46.67% | 45 | 1.4 | 622 | 12,714 | 43.5% | 50.0% | |
| 52.27% | 44 | 6.4 | 884 | 11,464 | 63.6% | 40.9% | |
| 56.82% | 44 | 1.7 | 697 | 12,408 | 64.0% | 47.4% | |
| 53.49% | 43 | 3.9 | 701 | 11,576 | 63.6% | 42.9% | |
| 40.48% | 42 | 6.6 | 894 | 11,913 | 43.5% | 36.8% | |
| 50.00% | 42 | 1.3 | 705 | 11,449 | 50.0% | 50.0% | |
| 63.41% | 41 | 6.4 | 862 | 12,444 | 65.0% | 61.9% | |
| 46.34% | 41 | 5.7 | 640 | 9,925 | 38.9% | 52.2% | |
| 52.50% | 40 | 1.6 | 696 | 12,922 | 47.4% | 57.1% | |
| 52.63% | 38 | 1.6 | 682 | 11,819 | 45.0% | 61.1% | |
| 47.22% | 36 | 4.9 | 673 | 11,202 | 43.8% | 50.0% | |
| 54.29% | 35 | 1.8 | 608 | 12,955 | 50.0% | 56.5% | |
| 39.39% | 33 | 5.5 | 658 | 11,749 | 33.3% | 41.7% | |
| 51.52% | 33 | 5.8 | 765 | 11,414 | 50.0% | 53.3% | |
| 48.39% | 31 | 6.0 | 744 | 11,854 | 40.0% | 56.3% | |
| 50.00% | 30 | 2.2 | 825 | 13,678 | 22.2% | 61.9% | |
| 50.00% | 30 | 2.2 | 862 | 10,646 | 47.4% | 54.5% | |
| 22.22% | 27 | 6.4 | 884 | 11,068 | 21.4% | 23.1% | |
| 48.00% | 25 | 3.5 | 692 | 11,906 | 58.3% | 38.5% | |
| 40.00% | 25 | 1.3 | 614 | 12,219 | 36.4% | 42.9% | |
| 58.33% | 24 | 1.9 | 737 | 12,266 | 60.0% | 57.1% | |
| 47.83% | 23 | 1.4 | 622 | 12,780 | 44.4% | 50.0% | |
| 22.73% | 22 | 4.2 | 668 | 10,766 | 18.2% | 27.3% | |
| 68.18% | 22 | 1.9 | 578 | 11,372 | 80.0% | 58.3% | |
| 50.00% | 22 | 5.5 | 660 | 12,756 | 28.6% | 60.0% | |
| 72.73% | 22 | 5.9 | 785 | 12,939 | 70.0% | 75.0% | |
| 66.67% | 21 | 1.6 | 621 | 11,446 | 40.0% | 90.9% | |
| 55.00% | 20 | 4.1 | 1,001 | 13,122 | 45.5% | 66.7% | |
| 57.89% | 19 | 6.0 | 649 | 10,348 | 57.1% | 58.3% | |
| 47.06% | 17 | 2.1 | 651 | 9,996 | 44.4% | 50.0% | |
| 43.75% | 16 | 6.0 | 684 | 13,429 | 40.0% | 45.5% | |
| 78.57% | 14 | 6.2 | 837 | 11,086 | 85.7% | 71.4% | |
| 50.00% | 12 | 5.8 | 726 | 12,202 | 40.0% | 57.1% | |
| 50.00% | 12 | 3.8 | 642 | 10,843 | 57.1% | 40.0% | |
| 36.36% | 11 | 6.4 | 825 | 12,646 | 25.0% | 42.9% | |
| 33.33% | 9 | 4.7 | 726 | 10,730 | 20.0% | 50.0% | |
| 66.67% | 9 | 6.4 | 703 | 12,960 | 66.7% | 66.7% | |
| 25.00% | 8 | 6.6 | 625 | 12,562 | 50.0% | 16.7% | |
| 37.50% | 8 | 5.1 | 629 | 10,374 | 0.0% | 75.0% | |
| 50.00% | 8 | 1.1 | 851 | 14,907 | 50.0% | 50.0% | |
| 42.86% | 7 | 2.0 | 563 | 14,200 | 100.0% | 33.3% | |
| 42.86% | 7 | 1.7 | 665 | 13,287 | 33.3% | 50.0% | |
| 42.86% | 7 | 2.5 | 539 | 12,340 | 33.3% | 50.0% | |
| 66.67% | 6 | 4.6 | 678 | 13,268 | 100.0% | 60.0% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 6.2 | 732 | 9,120 | 50.0% | 100.0% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 5.4 | 802 | 13,023 | 0.0% | 60.0% | |
| 60.00% | 5 | 6.0 | 487 | 8,861 | 50.0% | 100.0% | |
| 20.00% | 5 | 5.5 | 588 | 13,948 | 0.0% | 25.0% | |
| 20.00% | 5 | 4.8 | 426 | 9,349 | 20.0% | 0.0% | |
| 80.00% | 5 | 3.8 | 823 | 12,708 | 50.0% | 100.0% | |
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Volibear vs Swain - Frequently Asked Questions
How does Volibear do against Swain in League of Legends?
Swain wins the Volibear vs Swain matchup with a 63.6% win rate compared to Volibear's 36.4%, a 27.3 percentage point difference. This data is based on 11 recent ranked games in patch 26.10.
How does Volibear do against Swain in the early game?
In the early game, Swain has the advantage against Volibear with a 75.0% win rate versus 25.0%. Swain players should look to press their lane advantage through aggressive trades and wave control during the first 15 minutes.
How does Volibear do against Swain in the late game?
In the late game, Swain takes over the Volibear vs Swain matchup with a 57.1% win rate compared to 42.9%. Swain scales better into team fights and objective contests after 25 minutes.
Who wins the Volibear vs Swain matchup?
Swain wins the matchup against Volibear with a 63.6% win rate in League of Legends patch 26.10. The 27.3 percentage point advantage means Swain is significantly favored in this lane matchup based on 11 games analyzed.
What is the best Volibear build against Swain?
The best Volibear build against Swain includes Hullbreaker, Statikk Shiv, Spirit Visage with Gluttonous Greaves. This build achieves a 100.0% win rate in the matchup. Check the matchup breakdown above for the full item path and build order.
What are the best Volibear runes against Swain?
The best Volibear runes against Swain use the Precision primary tree with Resolve secondary. This rune setup achieves a 100.0% win rate in the Volibear vs Swain matchup. See the full rune breakdown in the matchup comparison above.
Does Volibear counter Swain?
No, Volibear struggles against Swain with only a 36.4% win rate. Swain has the advantage in this matchup. Volibear players should focus on safe farming and avoiding extended trades to minimize Swain's lead.
How do I play Volibear against Swain?
When playing Volibear against Swain, play cautiously and avoid Swain's power spikes. Look for jungle assistance and team-dependent plays since Swain has the statistical advantage at most stages. Use the matchup-specific build and runes above to optimize your chances.