Not Updated For Current Season
This guide has not yet been updated for the current season. Please keep this in mind while reading. You can see the most recently updated guides on the browse guides page
x
Build Guide By nrj6490
100
9
4,603,255
Views
58
Comments
100
9
4,603,255
Views
58
Comments
Varus Build Guide By nrj6490
4,603,255
Views
58
Comments
Varus Build Guide By nrj6490
x
Did this guide help you? If so please give them a vote or leave a comment.
You can even win prizes by doing so!
Vote
Comment
I liked this Guide
I didn't like this Guide
Thank You!
Your votes and comments encourage our guide authors to continue
creating helpful guides for the League of Legends community.
Varus Guide
Face Oblivion: Varus ADC Season 8
I'll try to address your concerns as best I can. Sorry if this sounds blunt, but if you think this build or style on Varus isn't good, you probably haven't been around League for very long. Just this spring, Varus and Jhin were the indisputable best ADCs in the meta simply based on how they could abuse the newly-introduced lethality items. The attack speed build that you mention had only replaced this poke-oriented style after heavy nerfs to lethality as well as buffs to on-hit items like Blade of the Ruined king, which also benefited ADCs like Lucian and Kalista near the end of spring.
This attack speed build lasted until recently, when the preseason began and both new runes and tweaks to lethality were introduced. These changes vastly changed the ADC meta from favoring attack speed based champions with Ardent Censer shielding supports to poke-heavy, lethality building champions like Jhin, Varus and Miss Fortune, all of which run Arcane Comet as their keystone rune. Just for some extra evidence, check out this link ( http://www.probuilds.net/champions/details/Varus ) to see what pro and high ELO players are building on Varus.
Of course, lethality and attack speed Varus aren't played in the same way at all. Attack speed Varus maxes E and focuses on getting out relatively close-ranged auto attack based damage in fights, and lethality Varus maxes Q, staying on the edge of fights and taking chunks out of health bars with long ranged arrows. The intricacies of Varus' playstyle are mentioned in my guide. Lethality Varus may not be the DPS based style from recent months that you’re probably used to, but I assure you it is a viable play style that has been around for some time.
Hopefully this wall of text helps you understand why this build is strong right now and why Varus isn't just an "attack speed champion". My goal with this guide is to provide the strongest Varus build for the current meta. If the meta shifts back to attack speed Varus (which it likely will in the future, as some experimenting with Fleet Footwork and Blade of the Ruined King based attack speed build is already happening in Korea), then I'll change it back, just like I changed it from the attack speed build to the current lethality one when preseason began. Of course, you can see that I've included 3 possible builds in my guide as well (Lethality, Attack Speed, and Crit), if you click on any of the three Varus champion portraits near the top of the page. If you end up making a Varus guide, I look forward to reading it!
I totally understand how lethality Varus can be seen as slow, especially since close ranged DPS isn't itemized in favor of long ranged Q spamming. This doesn't fit with the playstyle of a lot of ADC players (to be honest it was a shock to the system for me to go back to playing lethality Varus after half a year of running attack speed), which is perfectly fine, especially on a champion like Varus that can be played in many different ways. The attack speed build is still viable, especially since it hasn't been directly nerfed, so you do you. GLHF :D
(I max E first for the soft CC in lane + trade power, and because maxing W second makes it line up with 1st/2nd item power spikes)
Your on-hit build is showing the lethality build.
Just thought I'd let you know.
I keep having to switch around the primary build because lethality/on hit have been swapping a lot this season :/
{"title":"Lethality Varus","associatedMaps":[11],"associatedChampions":[110],"blocks":[{"items":[{"id":"1055","count":1},{"id":"2003","count":1},{"id":"3340","count":1}],"type":"Starting Items"},{"items":[{"id":"3070","count":1},{"id":"1001","count":1},{"id":"2031","count":1},{"id":"2055","count":1}],"type":"First bck"},{"items":[{"id":"3070","count":1},{"id":"3134","count":1},{"id":"3133","count":1},{"id":"1001","count":1}],"type":"Early game"},{"items":[{"id":"3142","count":1},{"id":"3158","count":1},{"id":"3004","count":1}],"type":"Core"},{"items":[{"id":"3147","count":1},{"id":"3814","count":1}],"type":"Lethality options"},{"items":[{"id":"3035","count":1},{"id":"3036","count":1},{"id":"3033","count":1}],"type":"Pen options"},{"items":[{"id":"3026","count":1},{"id":"3156","count":1},{"id":"3139","count":1}],"type":"defensive"}]}
Just an idea, but what about taking 10%cdr in runes and swapping to boots of swiftness on the lethality build? It obviously lowers your dps a tiny bit but the increased movement speed along with the slow resist(which lowers the self slow of your Q) works well when chasing, kiting, or repositioning to dodge skillshots and such in teamfights.
Anyway thanks for the great guide and hopefully looking at my comment!
-Willtato
I've tried Varus 3 times now with your "BORK Build" from your guide and it's pretty awesome. I always get 20/3/10 or something like this :) But especially in early I have huge mana-problems. I saw that you've
- Astrikas
- Astrikas