Okay... since when was Volibear being too strong in jungle?

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The thing is that his ganks are predictable and usually require him to Flash onto a prepared enemy to catch them. His melee-only range with no true gap-closers (haste effects don't count) limits his options for ganks.

Anybody who knows how to ward properly, not overextend, and watch out for timing attacks can avoid a Volibear gank pretty easily.

1.fast clears 2.builds fairly tank but melts people pretty much sums up the meta right now

And yet even in platinum & diamond he has a 54% win rate.

Yeah, I'm one S away from mastery 7 with him. This is going to hurt me. But he's not actually that easy to play around for most champs, so I think this is warranted.

His gank potential is not the reason he has been receiving picks, he has an insanely fast clear and increases his damage for building tank. His mid game is really strong and he scales well into late, especially on a team that has another form of initiation/speed buffing. Plus given the current item layout, he gets massive movement speed from shit like swiftys and dead mans, even a potential righteous glory for added regen benefits.

Other champions that counters him (mobile champs like kindred, nid, elise, lee sin) getting nerfed Also healing reductions removal from fizz, mf.... Also buff to his w.

A lot of it has been the toning down of tier 1 junglers, combined with a slightly less mobile meta. Luc, Ekko, Zed, and Fizz were pretty much impossible for him to deal with, but have now been nerfed. Voli was hurt by the swifty nerf, but not so much as you'd think since adcs don't get it now at all.

Tanky itemization is still really good right now, & Volibear gets to buy it and still do crazy damage. The incoming nerfs look to give him a weakness--a fairly slow first two clears. As far as tanky junglers go, his level 3-5 ganks are pretty good, but if these go through his enemies will have another half level on him.

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What would cause that, though? Favorable meta?

Being overtuned