Varus was shunned by many for he forgot the memo Aatrox gave him. There will always be the double A thing, Varus. The double A thing.

As a Varus main myself , I would say is the lack of identity in his kit , he can be a catcher , a poke mage , a DPS auto attacker , but he always lose something and he never gets the full use of his kit , unlike Kaysa. He has some littles flaw who scale into a big problem , lack of mobility , dependent of a passive who requires Varus be in auto attack range to be full effective, which is not always the case , his ultimate gives 3 stack of the passive during the time the target is root, instead the second is hit , E don't give that much damage the slow is low even max level and the grievous wounds is always 40% , Q can be cancelled with hard cc and silence , don't even is shot, his passive becomes a little redundant late game since doesn't past the attack speed cap and results in a lot of atk speed who don't get utilized

"If it weren't, supports wouldn't exist." Solo-queue tried so hard to never have to play support that Rito created an assassin whose only way to carry was to support AND EVERYONE TRIED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TAKE HIM TO SOLO LANES UNTIL HE WAS REWORKED OUT OF IT.

If Varus ever gets reworked, maybe Riot will finally remember the update his voicelines in game to reflect the new lore... that he got like 4 years ago at this point 🙃

There's nothing wrong with opportunity costs, or trade-offs or weaknesses...the issue is that many of the popular and often newer champs are designed to have their cake and eat it too; finding as many ways to around their weaknesses to cover them if they have them. Decent designs get tossed for the ones that are easier to draw out their full pwr.

I think the best thing Varus has to offer is his 3 hit pasive. His whole kit should be balanced around it, it would be so fun Just move his blight stacks to his pasive and make him get a different effect depending on what ability he pops the 3 stacked mark with Q poping pasive could be extra damage W (since its moving to his pasive, give him a new ability to proc, a skill shot) poping pasive could shred the enemy's armor or give him his old aspd steroid E poping pasive could give either extra slow or stronger healing reduction It would be such a cool concept Poke Varus is too toxic but it could still be viable and less opressive if more strength is given to his blight procs Literally imagine his playstyle 3 autos>ability 1>3 autos>ability 2>3 autos ability 3 kinda like sona but with basic attacks, itd be so fun to play

Allow Varus to gain extended range on marked targets. Maybe an additional 75 or 100 range would incentivize varus to continue stacking and allow him to pop blight stacks with arrows

He has been one of the most popular ADC,s in Wildrift where everyone has accepted the the fact that he is a long range assassin which can go ap to make tanks life hell and ad to make other adcs life hell.

I think Varus can still be saved without receveing an aatrox level treatment, I think if his E starts to stacks his actual W passive counting as "if an enemy stays over the corrupted land for X seconds he gains an stack" would be something nice. Not only that, removing his passive and making his actual W becoming the new passive and using the W as another "passive stack mechanic", that I doesn't have much idea about what it can be, would be something nice. In this way, Varus would become something between the lines of "Stack and kill" but without needing to be in AA range of the enemy, and although I can't talk about all the Varus mains I personally love the satisfaction for using the Q ability in an full stacked target and killing it.

I love how usually Vars uses this series to highlight the champions positive aspects in a rather hopeful and optimistic tone but he goes „yeah No saving the guy”

As Four main I find Varus fun as a pocket-pick. They both embody the one shot from half a screen away at the expense of sustain and the necessity for calculated positioning very well. Varus just has less of an identity as he can do a lot of other stuff besides this

I only played Varus when I started playing league, he holds a special place in my heart for teaching me the game in a easy way. He’s my main and I don’t think I’ll give him up for a different bot lane champ any time soon. I hope root gives him the love he deserves

Keep in mind that Varus’s w does more damage scaling with the Q charge, so that %60 max health from blight does %90 max health damage with a fully charged Q denonate

I never expected to main a obscure champion before Vars makes a video about it. Now that I think about, i dont remenber seeing many other Varus players in game.

This is a bit off topic but I noticed we have a toplaner, jungler, and an adc darkin, and if memory serves there are 5 darkin in the lore, so I’m hoping riot brings us a darkin mid laner, and a darkin support so we can have a full darkin team, and they all need double a’s in their names

I literally just stared playing varus a bunch more. He's a lot of fun.

I like varus as a marksman (crit build). you got nice DPS and astonishing burst with R+E+3AA+WQ.

I've been playing him for a few years now and I'm at 670k and I can safely say the main reason is that he suffers greatly from the nonsense of SoloQ, he requires a lot of peel and is quite slow to deal dmg, with how high damage and mobility is in this game now, it's just sadly not possible.

I started to play and main Varus two years ago when I first played League of Legends. The video's not out yet but my guess is that it'll be about Varus' lack of mobility, his very lacking abilities. His Q being the only active ability that deals relevant damage while building AD, the fact that it requires to be charged and can be cancelled by someone breathing on you makes him relatively weak as a poke mage, which used to be his specialty. Now his AP builds have been buffed and are now very strong, but they still suffer from the same weaknesses. When it comes to building and playing him crit, it simply makes more sense to play any other ADC instead.

1:47 i started playing league in 2017 and Varus was my first champ I ever played. I exclusively took him top with a lethality build (with no clue what I was doing. I just looked up a guide and saw the guide had footage of him top so I took him top). its sad to see him become such a polarizing champ. He's still my most played champ and I love his diversity between lethality, crit, on hit, ap, and even hybrid builds.

really nice editing! love that fancy transitions with his ult

I love the idea of Varus especially after the reworking of his lore, reworked Aatrox and Rhaast showed up, I think he can be a very interesting Darkin ADC. But as you said in the video, I totally agree that his failings is his inability to make use of his entire kit at one time. When Riot reworked Sion, they explained somewhere ( I can't remember where I read this) that a big incentive to rework Sion was that there was a lack of synergy in his kit that lead players playing him to always have to pick 1 thing to do and have no use of his full kit potential, something scaled with AD, something with AP, something with AS, so the player thinks "What am I supposed to build?" - and that can be overwhelming for someone trying to learn that champion. If you're met with a champion that says, "I can be built in 5 different ways" that takes a greater amount of time to learn BUT ALSO....you will never experience the full potential of that kit. Visually speaking, Varus is archaic, he looks terrible and not up to standard with the new Darkin lore, he looks nothing like Aatrox or Rhaast and has ass animations. I believe he does have to be reworked, but not as pessimistically as you stated in the video Mr. Vars. Being reworked doesn't mean being entirely destroyed, its an opportunity to re-imagine the Champion as they were "meant" to with the new standard of quality Riot makes nowadays. (Say what you will with the overloaded kits yes, but hey the champions look good.) I believe if they keep the conceptual idea of Varus's ultimate and his long range arrow, and design around 1 chosen playstyle, he can thrive. When I say 1 chosen playstyle, I mean it is an ideal "concept" a designer imagines when designing game play. It is sort of to say, "What will the champion play like in a perfect scenario" and that is their ultimate "gameplay moment." Like Samira hitting S rank and wiping through a team with ultimate. Maybe Xayah getting out all those feathers, dodging key abilities with ult and racking in huge feather damage through a team. What is the height of that champion's gameplay? Having that in mind directs the designer's decision. Having an unclear vision leads to conflicting kits, where its half of one thing half of the other. So they gotta pick, do they want Varus to be a sniper and precise maybe like Jhin, or high dps and aoe damage maybe like Jinx, or a hybrid hyper carry maybe like Kog'ma? Just pick something and make him handsome, he'll be top notch.

"every 5 seconds this man could nail you with a long range missile that does 700 damage with two items" *laughs in kai'sa W*

I think you mentioned his W going as high as 60% in the lategame but it's important to note that his Q increases the potency of this. A fully charged Q increases the damage by 50% (of the effect) causing 60% to raise to 90% (60 + 30) and then on top of that your W's missing health damage will proc AFTER the damage of your Q.

i'll always have a warm place in my heart to my belobed varus.

As my main ADC, I love most of his kit but I do feel his E and Passive lacking. If I HAD to rework him a bit, I would change out his e and passive to keep his power budget. Passive: Varus attacks and abilities apply Grievous Wounds for 4 seconds. (E) Varus fires a hail of arrows at the target location which lands after 0.5 seconds, dealing physical damage to all enemies within the area. Varus gains X% attack speed for each champion hit or champion entering the area inflicted for X seconds.

Can we talk abt how good the editing is on this video? Literally Varus' abilities flies through the screen at each cut

Artillery champs are my favourite in the entire game, and varus is my fave of the bunch. I hope they can rework them into a healthy spot again. Imo, their power budget should be more weighted towards q, otherwise they don't do anything unique. Just play Ashe lol.

Amazing editing, transitions, effects and display. Very well presented

One of my favorite champs of all time, shame that the game just doesn't seem to want him around anymore.

OMG, the transitions are amazing dude)

As a AP Varus player, I was waiting for this video After seeing it, I concur totally

I think galeforce is an insane item on Varus and almost single-handedly saves his kit. I’m no game design pro or high elo by any means, but galeforce gives you the ability to seamlessly change between both playstyles. Not only the dash but the passive movement speed mean that you can go from dpsing to poking, or the reverse at almost any time. It doesn’t solve the issue of lethality vs crit itemization, but if you go for a 60% crit build you can still sneak an edge of night or muramana

Another banger content. Your content never makes me bored bro. Keep the good work ♥️👑

Another great video, really makes me want to get off work early and play some League

I'm a Varus main and one of the things I love about this guys is I made a custom item page that holds FOUR separate builds that all work for him and he's the ONLY marksmen I know that can have so much success with so much comp versatility. FYI the builds are On-Hit, Lethality, AS Crit, and AP (With On-hit being a hybrid damage build)

Cuz he' got both scalings, AS buffs, health % damage and really long range (which was powercrept by now but is still scary), Varus is either the most obnoxious bully or a joke.

Varus is one of the most fun ADC that I still play to this day. Let me tell you a secret: both builds are bad, I believe that this video is prior to the items rebalancing but even then playing "assassin" lethality Varus was the most satisfying gameplan one could ever ask. You simply load yourself with AD, Ability Haste and Lethality and that's it ! You now have an ~3 sec CD ability that deals up to 1,5K damage late game, with proper runes to fit your playstyle (Harvest, Comet or First Strike are my recommendations depending on whether you want burst, sustain damage or earlier spike) you can be a poke god that is never close enough to the fight in order to get killed but still dishes damage. The only downside is that he now isn't good at pushing lanes, but that was a trade-off people were already making by playing him AP.

Great video.. Really liked you in depth explanation 👌may I ask for galio next?!

The transition that you used with Varus' ult was really cool, a little detail most wouldn't notice but cool

Like the blight stuff in the transitions!

I think an attacspeed scaling on Varus‘s Q would be nice.

I am having great success as a varus otp, I have 3 builds I go for depending on the enemy team, ap for tanks, ad for assassins and squishies and standard for a more tf depended game, the variety is what keeps me playing him.

holyyyy that montage😫😫 so fricking good

I think that the hybrid gameplay of varus guve him a huge versability in the lane or in team fights, in the crit build you have a good and balance dps and poke its not a sivir lethality an not a jinx but its varus and i like it

My only guess is because everyone has twelve dashes and it makes his arrows really hard to hit. Also, his lore needs a rework.

Disagree with the thing about ahse tbh Ashe has been turbo broken multiple times, and right now the ult cd is just ridiculous easily one of the best marksman, varus doesn't get nearly as much love

I think he deserve a full rework (visual and gameplay) But for a quick fix Riot could just make his poke spells synergies with attack speed and crit: -Q gets a crit ratio and atk speed reduces the wind up time. -E's cast time is reduced by atk speed.

As I was main varus in 2019 ~2020 I think he needs to lower direction of charging his Q by AS so he can DPS and keep his poke.

They could really lean into the darkin/"dual hunters" background and effectively do to varus what Kayn was supposed to be. An average champion who gets an evolution choice into (in Varus's case) DPS or poke damage, with a visual change to the bow.

I've recently picked up Varus after the durability update. My favorite Champs were no longer than useful due to the update, so I was struggling to find someone new to play. I love playing him attack speed and crit, it's super fun

I gotta say love the ult transition would love more of a champions touch with the vids even if its small its nice

Maybe giving him somehing like Kayne passive, sometime during the game he can choose to be poke or dps and his skill will adjust to your preferred playstyle.

When you mention ryze and azir being weak early and strong late reminded me of GP and why he is so strong, his early is really not that bad but spikes so hard he can be played in solo queue (at least better than those 2)

the ult for the transition was cleeeeeaaannn

Those Varus Ult transitions were smooooth

great job with the thumbnail

Varus was the adc I started playing bot with. His divergent playstyle and the variety of builds are some of the things I like the most about him, it reminds me of kayn, maybe for his rework they could use the same idea of choosing a different playstyle based on the form you have chosen, It sure will be more balanceable than it is nowadays.

Hey I love your videos and watch them a lot while doing other stuff. Thanks for the content. I also wanted to ask if you could do a video on Soraka.

Personally I like the fact that Varus has 3 different playstyles and I love all of them Also I don't want riot scrapping his ap playstyle with a rework

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLY YOU ANSWERED MY PRAYERS

Thank you I’ve been playing a decent amount of him mid and now I know what his passive is

"He has 2 mutually exclusive playstyles" "You always play him at 80% of his power. If you chose one playstle you lose out on something else" I completely agree with these statements. Usually when champions have 2 seperate playstyles, the focus in their kit shifts. However, no aspect of their kit becomes completely useless. Kai'sa is a good example here. Her AP build favors the burst of W and passive, but doesn't make her Q, E and R completely useless. Similarly, W is still a strong ability in her AD build and her passive shines with more frequency. Meanwhile, in Varus case, he always loses out. As an on-hit or crit ADC, his poking ability is severly lacking because he doesn't have nearly as much AD as with a poke build, reducing his Q to a finisher. As a poke champion he completely loses the value of his passive and has a hard time to apply stacks outside of hitting R because he lacks attack speed. And as AP Varus, his spells don't exist without his W at all, yet also his AA's don't hurt, making him very dependant on either hiting R or somehow being allowed to apply the stacks via AA's that don't hurt much. Unlike Kai'Sa he isn't *flexible* in what he builds, he is completely torn between multiple things. And honestly, I don't see a way to unify these playstyles. Even if they gave his spells hybrid scalings, or crit scalings he'd either become too strong or would jst go for whatever build is numerical better. What they probably have to do, is to decide what they want Varus to be. But that's not an easy thing to do, because, since he has so different playstyles, the playerbase has very different perceptions on what Varus is. If they, for example, reworked his Q to actually be a finishing move rather than a poke tool, allowing Varus to be an on-hit focused auto attacker who only uses his spells to detonate blight, the poke Varus players would be very upset. Similarly, if they'd give E a way to stack blight, allowing poke Varus to gather stacks without auto attacking and maybe rework the passive to support that poke centered build, the on-hit enthusiats would be upset. These two playstyles just don't go along because of how his kit is set up. I mean, they kind of attempted to turn him into a spellslinger similar to Lucian, where he AA's a lot but shoots out his spells inbetween. That was the idea behind the cooldown refund on blight detonation. He also kind of has item support for this in the form of Navori Quickblade. HOWEVER, his spells are not designed to be queued between his AA's. His Q deals pretty mediocre damaged if not charged and his E has a pretty horrible casting animation. Putting your spells between your AA's just doesn't feel good.

Here's my take: Change his W so that all forms of damage he does applies his stacks. Get rid of his ult, put his Q onto his R, his new Q being when pressed he pops all the stacks he has on all enemies, and they're slowed a % for each stack, or rooted if they had all 3. Make his new R spammable, but it's charge time is reduced with attack speed, and make it a semi-global. There you go. He'll be an on-hit champ that's centered around first rooting people after hitting them with a few autos, then finishing them with an ult he has to briefly charge while they can't move. No more long-range engagement from an ADC, but while still offering him a form of self-peel and/or lockdown, which also synergizes with his ult to be similar to how morg ult, bind, shield, and W all last in similar duration to eachother in a way that makes it very clear what her intended goals and combos are.

I honestly love that he has these completely disparate playstyles. If my team needs magic damage in a form of burst, Ludens, comet, manamune, shadowflame. If my team needs consistent magic damage, nashors, guinsoos, radabons. They need a crit marksman? Kraken, collector, runaans. So on and so forth. It makes him highly flexible and adaptable. I can always build items like Zhonyas or Axiom in either build and they'll help me out and keep me going. Varus is able to do a similar job to Kaisa in that way, except with a lot more safety and utility. Where Kaisa just offers damage, Varus is damage, consistent poke, executes, AoE slowing and heal cuts, and CC. All stuff Kaisa would have to lose something to go for.

I wonder if a good rework would be making it so the stacks give ramping move speed so that he becomes a sort of chase-and-lockdown marksman almost in a similar vein as Senna. Maybe something like: Passive: Applies the blight, up to three stacks, gives move speed Q: Same, serves to detonate blight stacks W: passive - Increases the damage done by detonating blight stacks, active - same E: Same, serves to slow down the enemy you're already rush-poking and remove blight detonation R: Same, but increase corruption range if target was already previously blighted The idea here is that Varus becomes an odd sort of poke rushdown champ. He'd be a bit less committed than other rushdown champs due to his range, and his playstyle would be something like hitting with an auto to get movement towards a target, continuing to auto til they're fully stacked, slowing them and mitigating external support with E, and then using your closer range to more reliably hit those massively ouch Q arrows and R. Ultimate would serve to punish or zone those who try to intrude on your rushdown. I feel like leaning into this would also be lore fitting, considering he's the fusion of two hunters.

Varus can be played as a long range sniper with dark Harvest his shots is death shot but he forces you to be always focused I know it's difficult but I like to play him because of that thank you for showing up to my TED Talk

Everyone would play him if his name was "Vaarus". Loved the analysis, new sub owo

I just got a pentakill with the darkin bowmaster last night so this is perfect timing!

Weird because Varus has been the only champ I’ve been playing for the last few weeks and I’ve been having a fun time.

love the Fire Emblem Fates ost playing on the background

I loved playing on hit varus when it was strong, I hate lethality varus. I feel like he lost a lot when rageblade got changed from the version with pen and ap as well.

Mad probs on the varus ult transition 😤😤

My idea for a Varus rework: -Turn his W (passive) into his Champ passive and give it a crit scaling, something like "crit autos apply 2 blight stacks" (add a higher cap of stacks, something like 6). Also current passive could be changed to "When Varus pop blight he gets x% attack speed depending on the amount of stacks" - Make his Q similar to Panth's Q. Tap Q would incur in a lower damage and range but also a lower cooldown, making it a good way to consistently pop blight stacks. Charged Q would have a bonus crit scaling so crit items still feel useful to build. **An alternative to this could be to give Varus Q a charges system, like Corki's Rockets. - W (Active) could stay the same. Maybe add a new passive or some kind of synergy with his passive to make it more interesting than just being a finisher. Also activating it would reset Varus Q cooldown inmediatly. It's silly you can activate an enhancing ability effect but it just wastes if you don't have the cooldown of the spell it enhances and since it's a finisher you need it on demand. Additionally make so the next Q can only be charged and not able to quick tap (the reason behind this is to encourage some Q charging in Varus kit since I've focushed too much on Blight). These changes would be enough to make Varus more interesting to play and give him more "marksman feeling". -About his E. The other 2 Darkin champions, Aatrox and Rhaast(Red Kayn) have some kind of sustain/lifesteal, so my idea would be to leave the current E and instead of being a healing reducing effect make it a healing/shielding steal effect, like Zeri's passive but also with heals, leaving a "Blight wound" on the enemies for X seconds that steals x% of shielding and healing received while afflicted. -About his ult, idk it would have some tweaks like if you land R on an enemy with 6 (or other number) blights "it inmediatly spread to the closest enemy champ" or "it spreads faster". This way you get rewarded by being patient and exposing to danger. It might be too good of a change tbh, but I think it would be fun to have the choice of using a risky R to double its potential in teamfights.

I have a hybrid AP varus build that literally no one else I’ve seen has built before, and yes I’m a bit proud of that fact because it’s a build that works well and hasn’t gotten taken by Koreans and saying “oh new op build” with a 20/2/5 KDA slapped onto the thumbnail. But I am very curious as to what’s gonna be on here because this guy is my pocket pick for adc if I feel like we don’t have enough tank killing potential or range

Varus is one of my favorite characters, but I rarely play him AD. AP varus feels amazing to play, and is not as obnoxious or boring as the poke build. His kit functions more fluidly by working around blight stacks as your main source of damage. Early game is weak, but late game you can erase an enemy from existence even if they have high health/MR. Runes are: Hail of Blades, taste of blood, eyeball collection and ultimate hunter. In percision take presence of mind, then coup de grace or cut down depending on the enemy team. For the build I start D blade and work towards nashors then death cap, followed by situational items. If you're struggling in the early game you can go manamune first item, then opt into nashors and so fourth. The build is super rewarding to play, allowing you to get picks and swing team fights through good ultimate usage and good attack weaving.

His E is meant to be a kiting/chase tool. Not to the extent as something like jinx W or jhin w but it’s his version of it. It’s good for short trades as well.

Here's an idea that somewhat blends his playstyles while still offering diversity. P) Replaced with W passive. Popping passive stacks no longer gives damage. Instead, it gives a short burst of attack speed and an additional effect based on the triggering ability. Q) Lower damage. Triggering passive applies additional damage (this damage can be high as it relies on some interaction). W) Add a short burst of movement speed to get that perfect shot. This isn't a significant source of mobility in general due to its long cd. E) Also applies stacks of passive over time. Triggering passive adds a short root to the start. R) Unsure on the passive triggering effect, but I think it should be big (and the base ability tuned down a little in return). It could stun instead of root, could spread faster, could have a longer range on the spreading effect. The basic idea is he can still poke hard if he lands E into Q, but no longer as hard with just his Q. In addition to that, he's weaker if enemies jump on him while those cooldowns are down as he needs them to give that burst of attack speed and their valuable additional effects. He is also further incentivized to rotate between autos and abilities to maintain high attack speed and get the most out of each ability. With this he could still opt between going for on-hit or ad/lethality builds depending on which part of the kit he wants to focus on, but they won't be quite as disconnected anymore. Also his absurd poke either won't be quite as absurd or will weaken him if a fight breaks out while his abilities are on cooldown.

patiently waiting for the noxus faction episode.

I feel like they should make him look like an actual Darkin. I would have never guessed that he was a Darkin before I read the lore.

You should do a "Why no one plays Akshan" I nearly forgot he was even in the game.

I feel like saying his AP playstyle can "reasonably find [you] success" is doing it a massive injustice. I do not play Varus with any different styles except for AP and have gotten fairly high (diamond) on my past account. Building manamune first and then transitioning into his ap items feels much better than any other build, and having ult up fairly often with ultimate hunter makes it an ease to delete enemies from a distance or ones that try to jump on such as assassins. I'll be interested in hearing any other Varus mains input on this or their perspective on same/different playstyles.

I like the idea of changing blight stacks to appear on ability hit and extend their duration. A Q applies 1 stack, W empowered 2 stacks, then he gets in close to hit an auto attack to pop it. That would free up his passive to an auto attack modifier instead of a steroid. You kill on hit Varus, but solidified him as a long range physical damage or magic damage carry.

Wait what happened to Why no one plays Zoe? Just curious.

With keeping dual playstyle but encouraging each other in mind, my opinion is on another ability swap, p n' w, with slight overall adjust, keep numbers out since this is hypothesis: P: Killing a units giving Varus a stack, causing next atk on champ dealing bonus current health dmg; when having 3 stacks, next non-ultimate ability hit caused bonus max health dmg. W: Passively gain ms when killing a unit, active gives Varus as steroid. E: also has charging system, tap caused high dmg but no slow, hold caused low dmg but heavily slow enemy champion within. R: No longer give Blight stacks, instead any ally inside the ult radius after ult hitting enemy champion get bonus ms

A few weeks ago I completely reworked Varus, just for fun. I'll post it here cause why not. Varus Passive: When an enemy is damaged by another ally, apply a stack of Blight for five seconds and refresh current Blight stacks, up to a max of 5. Blight stacks are detonated, dealing magic damage, when Varus deals ability damage to an enemy. Varus's auto attacks do not deal damage to Champions, but apply blight stacks instead. Every three auto attacks by Varus, his next auto attack also detonates all Blight stacks on the target. Q (15-7): Chargeable skillshot with a max range of 1600 (slightly over 3x auto range). Charges slower than current Q, the shot moves faster, and is canceled once it reaches max range without firing. Deals % missing health magic damage. W (30-18): When used normally, allows Varus to autoattack all enemies with his maximum Q range who recently received damage from an ally for a limited time. When used during a Q charge, instantly fully charges the Q. E (30-10): When used normally, slow all enemies by an amount determined by the number of Blight stacks on them. . When used during a Q charge, grants the Q magic penetration. R (140-90): For the next ten seconds, reduce your Q cooldown by 50% and instantly reset it at half charge whenever you kill an enemy and increase the duration of this ability by 5 seconds. During this time, your Q has 150% range, moves twice as fast, and Blight stacks deal double damage.

Idk i personally love playing varus. I get all the points you make, but personally i like the versatile nature of him and how simple he is. You do have to be a lot more careful on him too and depending on the play style, you have to use different game knowledge and macro to use him properly. For example, you play him differently and can have different advantages whether he is full poke lethality, full on hit attack speed, or full AP one shot Depending the enemy team you can build based on this very well compared to other adcs. Also it helps get better at different aspects such as landing and timing his skill shots and spacing because you have to. Im a tryndamere one trick with a little over 2 mil but varus is literally the only adc I can play in the bot lane with good success but maybe it is just me. I did put in a lot of effort into learning him but I love his ascetic, his skins, his gameplay, and how he is actually challenging and has no escape or dash so you have to focus a lot on spacing and map awareness for him to work. Ultimately though, I'm just a random and although i do love playing varus, I love playing tryndamere more but that being said they are the only two champs i own every skin for lol

Honestly, I'd like to see his passive and W swapped. Make the active segment of blighted quiver a Q passive or make it to where if the enemy has max blighted quiver stacks, it does the bonus damage. Making the attack speed buff an avtivatable ability would help some. We can also make his Q a new ability to where instead of a charge, it's just a skillshot with a base cast time of, like, 1 second similar to Caitlyn Q. I think E works as is more as a utility spell or give it a complete rework. E is probably the ability I'd scrap. His ultimate is very fun now but maybe make it more of a slow for 1.5 seconds into a root or stun for an additional 1 second? Something a little less consuming so much of his power budget?

ap varus is the most fun build in league. I dont paly marksmen but anytime I get him on arams im in for a lot of one shots nce I get 2 items

I used to love playing Varus way back in S3-S4. I feel like if his power budget was shifted more towards on-hit rather than poke, he would be able to fit a lot better in a more traditional ADC role. Nerf his Q AD ratio a bit (and maybe add like 10 base damage rank 5 so the numbers don't shift too much in the early game), buff the damage a bit on his blight stack detonation and you've already helped him a lot. Another change I'd like to see on him is to shift his passive to a stack and decay system. Instead of getting a flat AS bonus on kill, with a higher bonus vs champions, give him a stack for each minion killed and more stacks (max stacks?) on champion takedown. Each stack gives like 10% AS, scaling with his level, and the stacks decay instead of losing them all at once. Then in lane he has a much clearer engage pattern: wait to kill a few minions to stack up the AS then go in for a short trade, using either Q or E to detonate stacks from a safe range. That already sounds a lot healthier and more fitting with current design standards.

Easy fix to Varus: His Q now works like Leona E and pulls him to the middle of the enemy team when he hits it :D

THE MEMO VARUS! Legit one of my favorite quotes from the memelord himself.

As an AP varus player, I feel like he is about setting up your stacks with AAs and ocasionaly R and Then detonating them with a Skillshot. This is unique for him as most other stacking passives can be detonated with autos or targeted abilities. His passive (P), although comfortable during laning and making him better in long lasting teamfights feels very disconnected from the rest of his kit. They could make it so that you get stacking AS from proccing Blight making you a threat in prolonged teamfights more consistently without having to kill anyone first. This would make on-hit Varus care more about the blight stacks. His (Q) feels mostly okay as a detonator for blight or a long range finisher when combined with (W). It just is quite slow and it could use having Charge time scale with AS. As for lethality Varus this is pretty much the only ability he cares about and i think this playstyle is not what Varus is about. For on-hit Varus you could add a crit scaling so this ability feels impactfull. His (W) I take as the core of this champ. The blight stacks create a unique pattern of setting up damage with your AAs and using your Skilshots to pop it. The CDR rewards skillful play and could be increased up to 50% to accomodate for high AS. The passive damage on autos for AP (for AD it is barely noticable) makes farming easier and provides some sustained damage in fights if you happen to miss a spell. (Btw. Kayle has 40% AP to AA scaling which is only 10% more than Varus. In my opinion this spell doesn't need changes (maybe apart from small balance ones). His (E) feels the worst because of its cast time that makes the slow almost non existent. They could make it better by letting you cast it while moving and giving the slow AP scaling (not unlike twitch (W)) His (R) is in a good state. It is very versatile. It can be used as a long range catch tool, a defensive root against assasins or a teamfight zoning/mega ultimate. I would only do small quality-of-life updates like still applying the blight stacks and AOE if the target cleanses the root (Olaf R, Cleanse...) or dies. In conclusion, I think that lethality Varus should be removed/not the focus. Varus should get a QOL update and his passive should be tied more to the rest of his kit. And tie on-hit Varus more to his blight stacks. (For this to work you would probably need to swap parts of his W and Passive, but that doesn't really matter)

Simple rework mockup: Passive: using abilty or killing enemy grants AS, increased when killing champ or using blighted (empowered) ability Q: pretty much no change other potential number changes to match W: Arrow Burst: Varus attacks quickly 3 times applying on hits. (skillshot) These attacks may pop blight, and 3rd has +100% crit chance (excess crit chance converted into small crit dmg bonus) E: Pretty much the same R: Blight: passively apply blight stacks that may be popped with abilities. Active: empower basic ability: Q empower: some form of extra dmg + as/ms debuff based on much hp left enemy has W empower: instead of attacking 3 times, Varus sends his old ultimate applying on hit effects once. E empower: area increases + moving through arrows deals %hp phys damage, varus gains movespeed in the area Could work nicely without changing him absolutely, give him some tools and make him more fun by watching which empower to use. Also to keep things modern and give him some more speed, Q charge could be quicker the more AS you get, and arrow burst's animation speed could also scale with AS.

I always thought that w should be doing something more, my idea for W was for it to actually change his Q and E effects like a trick arrow (something from the Arrow TV show) so there would be at least 3 or 4 different effects that you can shift around. Something assassin like could be cool too, like wire arrow can be used in different ways depending on if it hits the terrain or unit. Idk there are many cool things to do with arrows Manny of which would fit better than attack speed things. Web arrow is fun to think about, posion arrow, fire arrow, idk. Basically since he haves 3 personalities, perhaps it makes sense for his abilities to do different things when other personality is dominant.

Two things that would help. Q charge time quickened with attack speed. So charging mid fight is not less dps than 2 autos. Crits detonating w procs or empowering it in some way.

I've actually had an idea for a Varus mini-rework to fix some of his problems for a while, and what better time to share it than in a WNOP with no rework idea at the end. Keep in mind though, that I have only seen onhit once or twice in my 4 years of league, so my idea was completely designed around lethality/AP playstyles, as he is completely an artillery mage in my eyes, and while he has onhit damage, his kit never made sense as onhit to me due to the poor synergy with his Q charge time. Passive: Basic attacks deal 15 (+20% AP) bonus magic damage and add a stack of blight, up to 3 (as well as the rest of his W passive). Extra atk speed on kill replaced with 25-75% (Lv 1-18) bonus atk speed on enemy champions until they have 3 stacks. Q: Add AP ratio of 30% W: Passive removed Stats: AS ratio lowered to 0.625 The idea is he would still benefit from the 3 blight stacks, but without wasted potential (bonus attack speed that he needs attack speed to increase rather than just a flat bonus), though his sustained auto attack dps would be reduced, as autoing someone with 3 stacks no longer gains bonus attack speed. Additionally, since his power would be shifted away from autos (especially since i reduced the AP ratio on them), and because Q feels useless on AP Varus, I felt that compensating with a low Q AP ratio would be fair. It would have no effect on Lethality builds, it would just make AP Varus better in the neutral if his ult is down (for all the 20 seconds). Once again, the point of this mini-rework would be to make Lethality/AP better, with more consistent attack speed bonuses that make stacking passive easier without forcing him to build attack speed to do so. If anyone does care enough to read this whole thing, your thoughts would be appreciated, I've been enjoying coming up with theoretical reworks lately, but have nowhere to share them, so I never get feedback.

I think the best thing for varus would be to allow his autos to trigger blight, or give him cdr based on his attack speed. As it stands, on-hit sacrifices the power that his q gives, while his poke loses out on the dps from his w. Another thing that might be beneficial for him would be to increase the slow from his e. That ability is supposed to serve as his only form of self peel beyond his ultimate, but it's not really strong enough to do so

idk if it would be a good idea but I believe you could incentivise the usage of his abilities in attack speed / AP based builds by adding the same change that was made to Jinx´s W on his Q and E, and also maybe a Passive where if you proc his w passive at 3 stacks you get rewarded by the unit having 1 stack more, kind of like a Lux Ult and her passive. That would make his kit more cohesive without the need of a full on rework and would not be as punishing when you pick one build or the other without adding damage to his abilities.