Varus Build Guide by Keondre
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Build 1 (Cheat Sheet)
Champion Build: Varus
| Health | 2036 |
| Health Regen | 14.4 |
| Mana | 898 |
| Mana Regen | 15.5 |
| Armor | 137.39 |
| Magic Resist | 82.06 |
| Dodge | 0 |
| Tenacity | 0 |
| Movement Speed | 400 |
| Gold Bonus | 0 |
| Attack Damage | 471.3 |
| Attack Speed | 101.054 |
| Crit Chance | 65%S |
| Crit Damage | 50% |
| Ability Power | 0 |
| Life Steal | 22% |
| Spell Vamp | 0 |
| Armor Penetration | 35 |
| Magic Penetration | 0 |
| Cooldown Reduction | 0% |
Recommended Runes
Ability Sequence
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16
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The masteries shown here are not yet updated for the current season, the guide author needs to set up the new masteries. As such, they will be different than the masteries you see in-game.
Masteries
Guide Table of Contents
Introduction
Hey guys this is Keondre here with another guide. This is my 3rd guide here on MobaFire! My guide here is about 
Varus, The Arrow of Retribution. I chose to do a guide on him because he is a really interesting champion with a great skill set.
Varus, The Arrow of Retribution. I chose to do a guide on him because he is a really interesting champion with a great skill set.
_____I have been playing Varus in the PBE Client and in regular games. I enjoy him a lot and I hope you enjoy him too! I hope you enjoy my guide as much as I enjoyed writing it. I hope to see some great comments.
Varus in the PBE Client and in regular games. I enjoy him a lot and I hope you enjoy him too! I hope you enjoy my guide as much as I enjoyed writing it. I hope to see some great comments.
_____ I have watched the Varus champion spotlight like 10 times. I played about 10 games with him on PBE Client. He is a pretty decent AD carry and fits well into most team compositions. I have written 2 other guides which are both above 75%. I am currently reading and studying other Varus guides here at MobaFire and SoloMid. I also have been watching other Varus players throughout my games. I play a lot of AD carries, and he is pretty similar to 
Ashe. I would like to think that I have a fairly decent amount of knowledge of the game and how to build champions.
Attack Power:
Varus champion spotlight like 10 times. I played about 10 games with him on PBE Client. He is a pretty decent AD carry and fits well into most team compositions. I have written 2 other guides which are both above 75%. I am currently reading and studying other Varus guides here at MobaFire and SoloMid. I also have been watching other Varus players throughout my games. I play a lot of AD carries, and he is pretty similar to Ashe. I would like to think that I have a fairly decent amount of knowledge of the game and how to build champions.
_____ Welcome to Varus - Pain is a Gift!
Varus - Pain is a Gift!
Attack Power:
Pros / Cons
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Tenacious Pros
+ Long range + Nice CC + Strong skill-set + Team fight ultimate + Fun to play! + Uses a bow! |
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Insufficient Cons
- Squishy - No escape skills - Skill-Shot ultimate - Fairly difficult to master - Weird animations - Shut down by CC |
Masteries
I run 21/9/0. Explanations:
Summoner's Wrath
- Since we are taking Exhaust we want their amour to be reduced by 10 when fighting them. 10 armour reduction isn't much? Umm.. yes it is. Brute Force
- Helps you last hit. Since we are starting with 
Boots of Speed and 3x 
Health Potions, the 3 AD is helpful. That is greater than 1 
Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage. It's like taking 4 of those quints!
Alacrity
- Helps you last hit. I take this because it also stacks with his passive, Living Vengeance so you can last hit multiple minions within a 6 second time frame. You are going to be last hitting so this helps you attack faster to hit those minions.
Weapon Expertise
- 10% armour penetration. Makes you hit harder.
Deadliness
- 0.5 attack damage per level masteries. You will be hitting pretty hard already, this just gives you a little kick.
Lethality
- Since we are grabbing 
Infinity Edge early, we will be hitting really high. This provides 10% crit. strike damage. The passive from Infinity Edge boosts your critical strikes to hit 250% instead of 200%. You will be hitting 260% now with this mastery!
Vampirism
- Life steal... Pretty self explanatory.
Sunder
- 6 armour penetration. You will be hitting harder with this mastery.
Executioner
- You will be hitting 6% more damage to enemies that are 40% health or below. Helps with 1v1 and last hitting.
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Resistance
- Taken for the magic resistance and to fill a slot.
Hardiness
- Taken for the armour. Since you are going to be at bot against other AD carries, you are going to be taking quite a bit of damage from them. This reduces it by a bit.
Durability
- This makes you a bit beefier. Since you are quite squishy this helps.
Veteran's Scars
- This makes you beefier as well. Since you are squishy, this helps.
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