I'm new to the character. Why go on-hit over lethality/AP?
Ap for tanks.
Lethality for squishies/poke games.
On hit supposedly for sustained damage, but at that point, why not pick another champion? Varus only gets a bit of magic damage from his on hit passive.
I'm currently Gold 2 and I have somewhere over 500k mastery on Varus and I have been playing him since I started in season 6. I didn't touch much ranked but I recently got into it and I tried my favorite "bot laner" bot lane. I swear he is actually just a shell of his former self. There was a time when his ult was really fast and managed to do a lot of work, then they nerfed it. His overall AD damage was pretty good and then they kept nerfing it to account for the top 5% of players or something absurd. Then, most recently, they gave him some lame compensation buff to his W on-hit damage while completely gutting his Q AD scaling. I know I missed a lot of stuff but as time goes on, Varus went from feeling like a real champion to just being some stupid pick that the degenerates of top lane managed to rob to terrorize the tanks and bruisers of the world with that AP bullshit that one-taps pretty much everything in the game. And then Riot had to nerf that build too, rightfully so, but still it's annoying that Varus can't even have gimmick stupid builds go untouched. Mind you, I mostly play top lane and anytime I do, it's always a sweep because people only play him top lane as a degenerate cheese pick and they don't actually understand how to play him in any meaningful way outside of going for montage one-shot plays.
I feel like it wasn't that long ago that you could genuinely have a decent Lethality, or (my personal favorite) On-Hit build that would actually feel pretty strong without feeling like I'm trying to pilot a champion that's scraping the bottom of the ADC barrel with champs like Kalista and Yunara.
I tried new builds and items - like Experimental Hexplate for his weird hybrid/AD mid/bot build, or Dusk and Dawn because it was broken for so many patches in a row, but genuinely nothing feels good to run like it used to. I'm aware I'm an actual grandpa who wants to build some crit on-hit Varus from season 6 with my little runaans running around like a troglodyte, but at least he was fun back then. Nowadays, he just feels like a gimmick character that is meant to be in top or mid lane and I'm just torturing myself trying to pilot him in his intended role against champs like Smolder, Twitch, Cait, Jhin, Jinx, or any flavor of APC that stomps traditional ADCs.
I've been sort of passively checking this sub-reddit every so often and I see a weird mix of people saying Varus is either insanely turbo broken or he's incorrigible dogshit, and with a 49% winrate (roughly, according to OP.GG and U.GG) and 5% pickrate (roughly, according to OP.GG and U.GG) I'm more inclined to think he just kind of sucks and people are trying their best. I will say, with the recent addition of Gluttonous Greaves and the change to Statik Shiv, I think he feels significantly better to play than he did say 2 patches ago, but even still, he feels incredibly weak even compared to some of the more underwhelming ADCs like Tristana or Sivir. All of this is to say that I personally think Varus needs to be buffed in some way to account for the actual chud gold players of the world because I understand he's broken in the hands of Gumayusi, but when I try and win matchups it feels like I have to work a 16 hour shift just to be slightly ahead while the enemy ADC is rewarded for just playing whatever flavor of the month broken OP bot laner is rampaging through botlane at that moment (Smolder at the moment).
If anyone has any advice or anything to improve, please let me know or if there are any items I should think about because I have been really liking Statik, Guinsoos, BotRK, Terminus (my beloved), Jak'sho, and GA/BT/Runaans but if anyone has any other stuff that's better/makes Varus at least feel better, please let me know. I just want to enjoy my favorite ADC again like I used to.
I’m a zaahen top player at plat. Most ranged champs I can play safe but you guys I have no clue how to even begin to lane. Do you guys have any advice on how to play into your champ. That bow has taken like 70 lp from me the past couple days.
Bronze 3 so I am not really competent in itemization so any tips would be great!
Static - Dusk - Nashor - Guinsoo - Guardian - wits end/ Hour glass Zhou (not sure really good last slot)
I tried lethality and do not like it at all but AD builds I am not sure what to build either.
AP has been my best success in winning but again I am bronze 3 so I don't understand itemization.
Hello, I wanna main varus I think its a cool character hut I don't like playing adc where else can I play him? (Other than toplane) Maybe support or mid? If so how do I play him, AP or ad and is he a late or early game character and can I carry with him, and lastly how good is he against tanks, please help me understand him more and thanks
I need answers
What build should I go in top, full ap or on hit bc full ap seems to shred high hp targets, which are usually in top, but on hit seems better for sustained combat, which is also in top, so what should I do? Also what do you guys run for full ap
So... I play adc and like any other player I try to find the purpose of the abilities and their maximum output combo but I just can't see it with Varus.
Ask speed if you kill a minion? Okay I guess I can trigger that. Then what E? It has deep wounds but if I use it now than I have a W max proc that I'm loosing.
Also how is proccing even a good thing, pulling the arrow all the way down takes ages I feel like in that time I can shoot 8 more AAs and deal more damage... or even if that's not the case waiting to charge the bow mid fight is so strange.
Give me your light Varus mains!
Has anyone tried this item yet for lethality varus and liked it? I was testing it and I was surprised by how low the damage seemed to be from it. With the bonus lethality and %health proc I expected it to do more.