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Spells:
Heal
Flash
Ability Order
Living Vengeance (PASSIVE)
Varus Passive Ability
Introduction
Hi :)
This is my second guide on Mobafire, and it will cover what I think of

This guide will explain how

Please note that this build is not meant for ranked games, as I am not very familiar with playing ranked.
I've had a lot of fun playing


This took me 5 hours to make so I would be happy if you read the whole guide and tried it before you before commenting and rating :)
Credits to jhoijhoi for the template, which you can find here.
Pros
![]() +Very long range +He can reduce healing with ![]() + ![]() + ![]() +He has a long range AOE stun with ![]() |
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Cons
![]() -Very squishy -You need good map awareness -Has a very low base damage -Has no escapes |
offensive tree:











Defensive tree:


Utility tree:






Runes






Greater Mark of Attack Damage: This gives you some highly needed damage early game. It also makes your
Piercing Arrow much stronger.
Greater Seal of Armor: Armor is always good to have. It helps you absorb some harassment from the enemy ad carry. Also makes you survive ganks more easily.
Greater Glyph of Attack Damage: This one rune makes it so you get a total of 16 bonus ad from runes. All credit for this goes to the legendary Dyrus :)
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: Late game you need the magic resist to stay alive in a team fight.
Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: Same reason as
Greater Mark of Attack Damage
Good summoner spells:
Flash: Flash is good on almost all champions. Use it to get out of sticky situations, or to get the last autoattack off to get a kill.
Heal: I find
Heal almost essential on
Varus. In the laning you really need this until you get your
Vampiric Scepter.
Exhaust: It's very good for fighting the enemy carry. I would recommend your support to grab
Exhaust instead of
Clairvoyance. However you need good map awareness for this.
Okay summoner spells:
Ghost: You can use this instead of
Flash. Good for chasing but can't get you out of cc.
Ignite: Good for scoring the kill. Also gives you 5 bonus AD if you picked
Summoner's Wrath
Cleanse: Could be used if you are against a heavy cc team.
Spells not to take:
Teleport: Teleport is primarily used to split push and quickly get to dragon fights. Since you want to be in the team fights, and seeing how bot lane already is very close to dragon, there is no need for this spell.
Clarity: Never pick this on any AD carry. Save your mana instead.
Clairvoyance: With good map awareness this is a useless spell.
Smite: It's for junglers.
Surge: Let the hybrids take this spell.








Okay summoner spells:





Spells not to take:









Tips and Tricks
- Use
Living Vengeance to farm more easily.
- Attack an enemy right after proccing
Living Vengeance to get an extra damage boots.


You're going to want to max out



Tips and Tricks
Piercing Arrow can hit opponents very far away. Use it to get a cheap kill on an enemy.
- If you don't use
Piercing Arrow before 4 seconds after activation, you get half the mana cost refunded. If you can't hit an enemy get the mana back.
- In a fight use
Piercing Arrow right when you get 3 stacks of
Blighted Quiver on your enemy. In a 1v1 fight, do not charge up
Piercing Arrow. It will lower your DPS.

You're going to want to max out



Tips and Tricks
Blighted Quiver makes it easier to last hit in the low levels. It also gives a good boost when harassing your opponents.
- Use
Blighted Quiver completely melts
Baron Nashor and
Dragon with up to 400 damage per stack.
- Your abilities have a fairly long cooldown, so make sure you only use them when you have stacks of blight up. You get less damage from just spamming every spell you have.


You're going to want to max out



Tips and Tricks
- Use
Hail of Arrows wisely. If you misplace it, you might miss out on a kill, or even die in a gank.
- Try to hit the enemy carry with
Hail of Arrows. if you can prevent their support from healing them, they are easy to kill.
- Use
Hail of Arrows to get assist. you can throw it far, and get some free gold if you hit a running enemy.



You're going to want to max out

Tips and Tricks
- You can chain
Chain of Corruption with other teammates stuns to secure a kill.
- Since you have longer range than most you can immobilize them outside of their range to get free hits on them.
- Even if you fail to hit your
Chain of Corruption, people might still panic flash. Much like with
Fizz ultimate.
Item Sequence






Bloodthirster
3400

Last Whisper
1450

Phantom Dancer
2650

Guardian Angel
3200

Infinity Edge
3450
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:
Berserker's Greaves Gives you some good attack speed. they are also cheap compared to other boots.
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: I like to get
Bloodthirster as my first main item. It gives you a very big amount of AD, and the sustain on it is amazing. The reason I don't get
Infinity Edge as my first main item, is because of the prize. You save 700 gold by buying
Bloodthirster instead of Infiny edge. You also won't have to "Waste" an item slot by having a
Vampiric Scepter the whole game.
-
:
Phantom Dancer gives you good crit, attack speed, and movement speed. Since your base movement speed is only 310, you really need the bonus movement speed. The crit is good with your
Infinity Edge and attack speed raises your DPS by a lot.
-
:
Last Whisper is a great item for
Varus. Since we only have AD runes, the armor penetration really helps out. However this item is not worth it if the enemies doesn't build armor. If the enemies build armor early, get this before you complete the
Infinity Edge
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:
Guardian Angel is always good. It gives you nice armor and magic resist, and you also get an ekstra life in the team fights. Overall a good item.
-
: You almost never get to this point of the game, but if you do, I would very much reccomend you to buy
Infinity Edge It has the highest base damage of all items in the game. The reason I get
Bloodthirster instead of
Infinity Edge is mainly the prize, but also the fact that you get 20 more damage from a fully stacked
Bloodthirster.
Viable items
-
: This item has high damage and it also protects you were good agains magic casters. You could get
Hexdrinker before completing
Infinity Edge and then upgrade to
Maw of Malmortius instead of getting the
Last Whisper
-
: If the enemy team is not building more armor, buy this item instead of
Last Whisper. It gives good damage and attack speed, and it is not very expensive.
If you have more suggestions for viable items please write it in the comments :)









He can work just fine with all supports, but it is best if they can deal good damage, and also if they have a lot of crowd control.
Your role in the laning phase is to get all the creep kills in your lane. You have to farm up so you can be strong late-game. If you deny
Varus his farm, he falls off a lot in late-game. Your mission is also to harass the enemy carry with your long range, and make them afraid of you. If they think you are OP they run away when fighting. This is good, because you get free hits that way.
In the team fights you must wait to go in until the hard cc is burned. Once the cc is burned you use
Hail of Arrows followed by
Piercing Arrow on their carry. This should make him leave the fight so you can clean house on the rest of the enemy team.

In the team fights you must wait to go in until the hard cc is burned. Once the cc is burned you use


Non.ranked

As you can see it's some pretty good scores.
I cannot promise you the same results, but what I can promise you, is taht this guide will help you get better at Varus.
I think in time people will learn to counter Varus. The only reason people think he is so good right now, is that only those who have bought him truly know how he works.

The key to doing good with


i find

Once more:
Credits to jhoijhoi for the template, which you can find here.
If you have any constructive criticism please leave a comment saying what could be improved :) good luck using

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