Volibear vs Locke — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Volibear against Locke · 49.56% win rate over 573 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Volibear is favoured — Volibear owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Locke's 1. Volibear wins 49.56% of games vs Locke in top lane (573 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1VolibearQ Thundering Smash's stun and W healing let you bully his short level-1 range.
Level 2VolibearYour sustain and Relentless Storm empowered autos out-trade him at 2.
Level 3VolibearFrenzied Maul's second-bite healing owns the level-3 all-in.
Levels 4-5VolibearYou stay ahead on raw health and heals through levels 4-5.
Level 6Even / skillAt 6 it turns even - Purgatory's threshold preys on your big health bar, but timed W heals can outpace the totem.
First itemLockeHis first-item burst plus a saved execute totem lets him delete you.
Two+ itemsEven / skillLate comes down to skill - whether he times the totem past your W heal.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-4 you are the bully: Q Thundering Smash catches his short-range kit, empowered lightning claws out-trade his nails, W Frenzied Maul's second bite heals back his poke, and his own W burns his health to fight you - keep running him down before his execute exists and stack a lead.

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The full Volibear vs Locke report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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