The website doesn’t allow nesting past this point, so you have to respond to billy to keep the thread going (yeah, I know it sucks — sorry). But in this example, your itemization is terrible. Double Shojin Samira will do legitimately zero damage. Steraks + Titans Volibear will also do zero damage. Augments play a major factor here. And also whether you lose streaked into this board matters a lot too (I am guessing you did). This board is never winning out. In fact I would hope for a 6th at best with this board.

Maybe a bit of this is the guide’s fault, because if you are putting together boards like this from this guide then it’s really not clear. Voli wants damage items. ONE defensive item like Steraks is okay, but he wants full damage with IE mandatory. If you are building Titans on Voli, you are basically down half an item. It’s that bad. Your Samira basically has zero items. I promise she does zero damage with that build and she also provides zero utility (which is her primary purpose in this line — Last Whisper + Red Buff applier). So you have a Samira that does zero damage (despite investing 2 full items into her), a Voli with 2.5 items at best, no anti heal, no sunder, and you played the line from behind. 8th is the only position you could get that game.

I don’t think you understand the Voli comp based on the fact that the screenshot you sent me is another unplayable game with 3 dead items — Rageblade Samira, 2nd Red Buff on Sett, and Bloodthirster Voli. Yes, you need to slam something but something is going REALLY wrong that your items look like this in multiple games. I don’t even get how you got yourself in a situation where you had 2 Red Buffs — and you don’t need to explain it, all I am going to say is that itemization like you have sent in those 2 screenshots is legitimately never happening in higher elos so there is some major mistakes you are making somewhere with your line, augment, and carousel selection.

I agree it is not an easy A-tier comp though. Akali is a much easier comp to play as it isn’t reliant on 5-costs and the itemization is straightforward. I promise when I say I am not trying to be rude, but this is honestly a skill issue. You can take that however you want because I don’t really mean it in a judgmental way. If you look at Volibear stats, they get substantially better the higher the elo because people in higher elo are more in tune with how to play it. Your comments are making me realize it’s not straightforward at least and I’ll validate that. But I hope you can at least consider validating that the comp is one of the better meta lines when played correctly. It is the most popular comp in high elo AND the best performing high pick rate comp. Akali is only better in lower elos because people don’t counter position effectively — start playing against people who know how to position against Akali and all of a sudden that comp looks a LOT worse.

Also note that no comps are broken right now. They are all “mid” from default spots, so technically forcing any line will result in terrible games because nothing wins out in the current meta without really good conditions. It’s a difficult meta. The truth is, it might be better to put Volibear, Akali, Sorcs, and Kai’Sa down to B-tier and move everything else to C-tier. That might be more accurate, genuinely. That might also drive the point better of how important it is to play from good spots and from good conditions in this meta right now.