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[2.4] Varus Guide - One Stop Shop to the Gay Guy.

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August 13, 2021 03:21

One Stop Shop to the Gay Guy.

Varus in Summoner's Rift and Wild Rift right now is on high demand. first pick first ban, and also the only ADC that able to have 3 builds (same as in person as he is two gay and one Darkin.) Here's how you gonna play him.

Pros

Flexible build.
Scale well into every step of the game.
Insane poke.

Cons

No escape mechanism.
Hard to comeback from deficit.

Varus Build

Best Build Guide for Varus

Starting Items

3 core items (Lethality)

3 core items (on hit)

3 core items (APC)

Situational AP / Lethal

Situational APC

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

Beforehand let me give you detailx WHEN YOU PICK YOUR BUILD

Build	Requirement of draft
Lethality	3 enemy champ are squishy ( Katarina mid lane, Ezreal duo lane, Lux support for instance)
APC	4 of your team draft are AD ( Braum support , Yasuo mid lane, Darius baron lane , Vi jungle )
On-hit	2 enemy champ is bruiser, their support is a tank, your mid laner is an AP champion ( Lee Sin jungle, Nasus baron lane, Leona support )

Okay that's getting out of our way, let's start.

If you're on on-hit buy Long Sword , APC buying Amplifying Tome , lethality buying Sapphire Crystal

you need to get your first core item as soon as possible as lethality, but for on-hit and APC try to get 2 components of your first core item.

at minute 6 i expect you guys already have your first core item, tier 2 boots (i mean upgraded) / if needed tier 3 boots (i mean enchanted) and going for your second core item, and finish up as soon as possible.

Varus Runes

Best Runes for Varus

Keystone

Conqueror

Domination

Weakness

Resolve

Adaptive Carapace

Inspiration

Sweet Tooth

This is on-hit / APC runes.

Conqueror because we going to keep hitting them with auto attacks.

Weakness is so easy to getting triggered by using [varus:3] plus Chain Of Corruption and basically Champion rune without any risk

Adaptive Carapace for your own safety.

Sweet Tooth is for your regeneration and golds, you may change into Manaflow Band or even Mastermind

Keystone

Summon Aery

Domination

Weakness

Resolve

Adaptive Carapace

Inspiration

Manaflow Band

This is for our lethality build.

Summon Aery is suitable with [varus:1] because we are not reliant on auto-attack.

Weakness well suited with [varus:3]

Adaptive Carapace for you own safety.

Manaflow Band is good for boosting your mana stacking on your Muramana

Skill Order

How to distribute skill points

Living Vengeance - Passive

Piercing Arrow

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Blighted Quiver

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Hail Of Arrows

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Chain Of Corruption

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Flash

i always put flash on the left.

Heal

if your support doesn't run heal, take it.

Exhaust

if support already take support, instead of barrier, take exhaust. it's better.

Combos

Learn how to maximize the champions potential

Ult

3rd

2nd

1st

Poor man Prowler Claw's combo for Varus however for the Piercing Arrow part you need to make it max length so the kill can be secured.

Always use your Blighted Quiver empowered Piercing Arrow when you going for the kill.

3rd

Try to snag one final auto attack before Hail Of Arrows land on you target. this is your trade combo.

Varus Matchups & Counters

Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters

Easy

Kai'sa

Easy

Jhin

Easy

Vayne

Medium

Xayah

Medium

Tristana

Medium

Miss Fortune

Hard

Ashe

Hard

Jinx

Hard

Corki

Skill

Ezreal

Skill

Draven

low range champ like her cannot eat your ability early on, you have superior range and ability. however, do not take her on 1 vs 1, you will die instead.

and try to finish the game as soon as possible, you can't fight her late game.

Varus' laning partner

Leona	absolute disgusting support, buff after buff, her range on Zenith Blade is huge right now and you can even make your lane more lethal potent with all of her abilities plus Sunlight CERTIFIED BANGER WITH VARUS
Braum	Varus able to have bonus attack speed easily to proc Concussive Blows and his ultimate, Glacial Fissure is one of the best engage ult in the game. CERTIFIED BANGER WITH VARUS
Lux / Seraphine	If you see auto filled support, you gonna see either Seraphine or Lux . Lux provide roots and slow that you able to capitalize with your all in combo.
Sona	Well not too much to said here, Sona offers some healing and movement speed which are nice bonus considering Varus weakness is no mobility.
Malphite	Just don't play Malphite support for God's sake.
Janna	One of the best disengage champion, Janna can make Varus easier to escape with Tailwind and also giving him AD boost from Eye Of The Storm . however it is preferable if paired with Janna using APC or On Hit build.

Early - Mid

Okay. here. we. go.

Varus require good laning phase so try to NOT FEEDING EARLY ON. you need to getting more last hit so you able to have Living Vengeance keep proc for ypu and able to threaten your opponent's duo lane. use your Hail Of Arrows to start engaging as the slow able to trigger Weakness and also reducing healing in case of they gonna use healing for themselves.

always keep an eye on their mid laner and jungler as you doesn't have escape capability outside [flash] . until minute 3:30 keep farming and getting components or first item core for the team fight.

when the team fight start, use your [varus:ult] so he / she cannot escape (as root mechanic doesn't allow you to using [flash] ) and finish your target using all the combo provided early on. use the power spike that Living Vengeance provide after take down (or even better, kill) to stack the blight into the next target and pop it with either Hail Of Arrows or Piercing Arrow .

Mid - Late

This is where Varus power spike kicks in, especially the lethality Varus .

you need to stay far from team fight and keep proc your blight and also use the attack speed bonus via Living Vengeance and engage with Chain Of Corruption . by to by, when using Hail Of Arrows or Chain Of Corruption you are able to boost your team's damage capability because they can trigger Weakness if you using that minor rune. 5% damage is heavy bonkers i would like to say as basically poor man Champion rune for everyone.

if you see any probability that you can find most valuable target and sure you can pop your target down, use all in combo immediately so when a team fight break out, your team have an edge against your opponent.

Tips

Always remember that Blighted Quiver has active component that make your auto attack more powerful and enchanting your Piercing Arrow . it's insane a lot of people forgot about this one.
Chain Of Corruption works like this. the one getting the first root will get 3 blights, however for the one that surrounds the first target will get two blights so you need to auto attack them once to get them into three blights.
Protobelt Enchant and immediately Chain Of Corruption is good to caught them off guard and have small to zero chance to react.

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[2.4] Varus Guide - One Stop Shop to the Gay Guy.

One Stop Shop to the Gay Guy.

Pros

Cons

Varus Build

Best Build Guide for Varus

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

Varus Runes

Best Runes for Varus

Skill Order

How to distribute skill points

Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Combos

Learn how to maximize the champions potential

Varus Matchups & Counters

Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters

Varus' laning partner

Early - Mid

Mid - Late

Tips

Guide

Item Builds

Runes

Abilities & Summoner Spells

Combos

Varus Matchups

Varus' laning partner

Early - Mid

Mid - Late

Tips

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