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Varus Build Guide by OTGBionicArm

AP Carry Mage Varus: Complete Guide to spreading corruption.

AP Carry Mage Varus: Complete Guide to spreading corruption.

Updated on November 24, 2013
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OTGBionicArm (415) | November 24, 2013 12:15pm
The guide has been updated so the in guide information about masteries reflects season 4. I'm not really going to toy with the laning behavior section because that's pretty much all the same, only had to remove the bit about Oracle's Elixir, RIP.

Onwards to my other old guides!
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OTGBionicArm (415) | November 21, 2013 4:09pm
Cheat sheet updated for S4. Guide information will reflect this shortly upon further testing. :3
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OTGBionicArm (415) | November 9, 2013 3:11am
I'll have to search for it. pretty sure I don't though. I'm more sparing of centered than i used to be ;p
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jhoijhoi (2053) | November 9, 2013 2:54am
You must have an un-ended center somewhere earlier :3
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OTGBionicArm (415) | November 8, 2013 10:39pm
It isn't though, I can show you the code. ;p


See? only the headers are centered.
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jhoijhoi (2053) | November 8, 2013 2:28pm
items section: That text isn't centered other than the headers.


That's centered.
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OTGBionicArm (415) | November 8, 2013 3:55am
The starting items will likely be changed come S4, I'm pretty sure one can now buy a pot with a Dblade. But yea, currently it's an unsafe start. I use it because I mostly pick Varus into very low range characters that i can auto attack harass.
as for Hpen quints, they are better better than early AP on Varus. AD quints is the alternative
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Vynertje (386) | November 8, 2013 3:50am
OTG, I would personally not start doran's without lifesteal quints. Hybrid pen marks are fine, but I somewhat doubt the effectiveness of quints.
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OTGBionicArm (415) | November 8, 2013 1:44am
Just a few points I'll address:

The guide is indeed designed for magical damage, however, as stated within the guide; Varus will still end up dealing roughly 50% of his damage in physical due to having to auo attack to get anything done, as well as using his physical damage abilities to even trigger his magical damage. This is the reason i use hybrid penetration over magic pen. The point in the runes saying attack damage instead of Hpen is a typo as I just changed which runes were being used. My bad.

The disclaimer; I wrote it so people don't get pissy with me about AP Varus sucking for ranked. They did that last time.

I did not claim I was the first person to do it. I said I felt like the first, because I was the first person to write a guide about it here. (I'm 99% sure about that, but we'd have to check old guide archives to find that out.) I don't think it's pretentious to express pride about something you feel like no one appreciate that only you seem to do. Hipster maybe, pretentious, I'm unsure.

Random spaces: Im aware they look random at glance but when Im coding things I tend to get OCD if everything doesn't have a certain number of spaces and yadda yadda I'm bat**** crazy.

Magic Pen: Typo, needs changed. The guide previously used Attack damage runes, hence the urging the readers to rush magic pen.


items section: That text isn't centered other than the headers.

Bottom lane: I do say that the guide is intended for mid lane. I guess I said absolutely nothing about bottom lane other than "this is not a Marksman guide". Thank you for the suggestion to clarify that. ;p

Gameplay: There are tips and tricks. is that not enough on how to use the abilities? :[ The gameplay section could use more info and polishing and Im working on matchups and lane behavior.


Anyway thank you for the review! :D
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jhoijhoi (2053) | November 8, 2013 1:30am
As per usual, I review as I read, so if some of the earlier questions are answered as the guide progresses, I'll take note of that.

CHEAT SHEET
> Quints of duo penetration? Hmm...
> ****ing love maxing E first on Varus. Probably contributed to why I was a bad AD Varus.

GUIDE
> lol, that disclaimer. It's sad you had to write one.
> Aesthetically, I'd add something to the left of most of your blocks of text to break it up.
> Really dislike centred text, especially via list. If you want to add an indent, try adding an extra column to the left.
> Doubt you were the first mage Varus, and it just sounds a little pretentious saying so (I know you try to avoid saying it, but that's the way it comes across).
> You could wiki-link Mage and Marksman for clarity.
> Add a column between the pros/cons | description.
> Use a bigger size for your heading text.
> "Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: Same reasoning as the Marks." 1) You have hybrid pen in your cheat sheet. 2) I don't understand this comment.
> Blighted Quiver colour is really hard to read.
> Not sure why there are random enter spaces between list points.
> "As this build is primarily designed to deal magical damage, and it also doesn't use magic penetration marks, you need some early magic penetration" - ?
> I would add an extra column between the items and the description. Please don't center the text.
> That old warding image I made, wow, haven't seen that in a while. You'll have to get a new one when Season 4 comes out, though. Maybe. Hmm, maybe not. We'll see if a better map picture is released.
> o.o For some reason I thought this was a bot lane Varus guide. Probably poor reading on my part, but maybe make it clear somewhere.


THOUGHTS
> There wasn't much information about gameplay. I'd drive some home points here about your abilities and how to use them.
> I liked reading the guide ^^
> Aesthetically, it's quite good, better than average. But it does have room for improvement, as per above suggestions.

Nice guide :3
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OTGBionicArm (415) | November 7, 2013 7:24pm
Thanks! I try my best ^^ I'll be prettying it up more later.
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PoisonIvy (16) | November 7, 2013 2:54am
Good job, loved your coding :)
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