Where is Lich Bane for the 3 hits -> ulr -> lich bane one shot combo? Sheen is also really strong for the laning phase. And your masteries are messed up, you should change Spell Weaving and Blade Weaving . You can also try out Greater Seal of Health and Greater Glyph of Scaling Cooldown Reduction.

To further enhance the earlygame, you could also try out AD marks or even Hybrid Pen marks, the attack speed isn't usefull until later and you want to optimize your runes for early game.

Updating today, I've actually switched my runes and masteries recently to AS marks and 21/9/0, though I can see going 3 in utility for fleet of foot. Thanks everyone for the feedback, I appreciate it.



aradon, Ruunan's is crucial on AP Varus, you really can't substitute it, especially with DFG removed. Without it, your wave clear is awful, and your teamfight presence is weak at best. Runaan's enables Varus to stay relevant, and while BOTRK is decent, there isn't a spot for it in this build. Void Staff/Zhonya's are both better pick ups.

I like how in-depth your reasoning is. This build seems very solid for late-game, although admittedly awful early. I think that descriptions for ability usage and rotation tips would be helpful for learning the role, as well as more specific mastery descriptions and any possible alternatives that might be available. Also, the benefits of AP Varus compared to other late-game APCs would be nice to have.
Finally, IMO sorc shoes with some AS runes would be more effective than zerks and mpen runes, but I can't exactly do a calc or anything, so that's open to debate.

One thing I think you can switch out is Runaan's Hurricane for Blade of the Ruined King.It will increase your damage output so much

I was working on an AP Varus build last night and I was having trouble, thinking it was completely impractical. But after seeing your notes on not using the gunblade or G-blade I'm deciding to give it another go. I started off with those two and then went into heavy AP. Thanks for the guide, maybe I can take this somewhere now!

I'm also a little dumb and I never fully read the part on his W that gives magic damage on hit...I thought it only did dmg on detonation. Now I must go back into the rift and whip some butt. Also what do you do for your mastery page? I switched mine up at the time of writing this comment, I do 21/6/3.

4 Fury; 1 Butcher; 1 Exposed weakness; 3 Mental force; 1 Arcane Master; 3 Executioner; 3 Archmage; 3 Devestating Strike; 1 Arcane Blade; 1 Havoc;

2 Block; 2 Recovery; 2 Veteran's Scars

3 Fleet of Foot.


I feel the 3 fleet of foot is important for chasing with AA's.

Going AS quints with sorc shoes seems to be a lot better to me. Or AS quints with zerkers, either way attack speed > a tiny bit of AP.

I like playing Varus and i love playing mid now i can do it with him