Talk:Volibear/@comment-173.180.154.18-20120117105917

Ionic Spark, 50 attack speed, 250 health, already two stats that work well in Volibear's favor... but having a mini version of his ult on -all the time-? :D And when you do ult, double lightning... if you consider that the lightning strikes every 4 hits for 110 damage, the lightning strikes the same number of targets... (Though I'm not sure about the bounce - the ionic spark has 400 range, and thunder claws has 300 bounce range, but I thought that thunder claws has 300 range -per- bounce, while ionic has 400 range for the entire strike? Not sure.) Anyways, 110/4 = 27.5 damage per strike - to get the same increase on his ult, you'd need about 92AP...  and on top of that, the attack speed lets you get out -more- lightning with every ult, and his passive from W lets you proc Ionic spark more often as well! All for only 2300 gold, built from a health crystal... love it!!

Regardless, I'm making Ionic spark a permanent item for my Volibear build when I can help it, it feels like it's practically made for him! I can't wait to try it out, though I'm wondering how it may fit in when - I find that I usually try to get my warmogs right after my boots for the sake of survivability, but considering it gives health and would help his (imo) weak farming, ionic seems like a decent first item to build after boots, if you're having a fairly good early game...