Volibear/SkinsTrivia

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Skins

• Volibear OriginalSkin.jpg
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• Volibear ThunderLordSkin.jpg
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• Volibear NorthernStormSkin.jpg
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Trivia

• Volibear was designed by Volty.
• Volibear was the first champion to be released in Season Two.
• Volibear, the Thunder's Roar, is a response to the ongoing joke on the League of Legends forums regarding armored bears.
  • The champion led to the creation of pro-armored bear and anti-armored bear factions, with leaders being the designers of the Riot Team, which eventually escalated to the Riot Wars.
  • His name is derived from Travis 'Volibar' George, the Riot producer who first put forth the idea of an armored bear champion.
• Volibear is possibly inspired from the armored bears (most prominently Iorek Byrnison) that appear through out Philip Pullman's Template:W trilogy, known as Panserbjørne (lit. 'armored bears', Danish/Norwegian origin). Atlantica's Druid Mercenary, Hero Naruk, also seems to be related.
• When there is an enemy Template:Ci present in game, Volibear will gain the Chronokeeper Hater Chronokeeper Hater icon with the text: "Not even Template:Ci could keep an armored bear out of the League of Legends".
  • The enemy Template:Ci also gains the Armored Bear Hater Armored Bear Hater icon with the text: "In my day, we would never have allowed an armored bear into the League of Legends." The allied Template:Ci is unaffected.
• Volibear's dance is a reference to Sam B's dance from Template:W. A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
• In Volibear's Champion Spotlight, his skin names were on the opposite skins. The name "Thunder Lord" was on the Northern Storm skin and vice versa.
• Volibear's skill Rolling Thunder is the same name as Henry Fillmore's famous band piece, Rolling Thunder, featuring the low brass.

Quotes

• Volibear has special quotes when slaying Template:Ci. Whenever Volibear slays Zilean, he will remark: "Your time has run out, Chronokeeper" or "I got a special claw for you, Zilean."
  • This is the first time a champion kill triggers a quote.
  • Volibear and Renekton are the only champions to reference another champion in their in-game speech.

Skins

• Template:Csi is a likely a reference to the Template:W, a major military organization created during the Template:W.
• Template:Csi is a more direct reference to Template:Wikia, the king of the Panserbjørne from the Template:W trilogy.

Relations

• Volibear forged an alliance with Template:Csi in the name of an unified Freljord.
• Due to the fact that the Riot design director, Zileas, was adamantly against the implementation of armored bears, Volibear and Template:Ci dislike each other.

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