Varus Needs a Buff

Ifneth·Jun 29, 2018·11 votes·6,192 views

Varus was hit hard by the marksman stat changes of 8.12 and even harder by the Rageblade nerfs of 8.13. Sitting at a 40.64% winrate and 2.17% pickrate, he might still see play, but it’s rarely good for his players or their teammates.

He was designed to win botlane by poking out his opponents, often with such an aggressive enchanter as Lulu or Karma. The recent efforts to nerf that tactic across the board, coupled with the decreases of enchanters’ early heal-and-shield items’ gold efficiency, have hit him doubly hard.

While I cannot day for certain what he needs, I suggest small ability base damage increases followed by tweaks to his kit to add power elsewhere, since overturning his numbers can easily make him overbearing in lane, especially with the right partner.

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15 Comments

TyroneWatermelonJun 30, 20184 votes

As long as his best build consists of standing in place autoattacking and shredding everyone, he can go fuck himself

BLIGHTBRINGERJun 29, 20183 votes

My thoughts from someone who has been maining Varus since mid Season 5, I don't think buffs are going to fix what simply is the obvious issue. His current kit, or a parts of it (such as Passive and E) are outdated and thus quite un-impactfu which result in most match ups outclassing him.

Passive - Living Vengence: I wouldn't mind the current Passive, but it was nerfed quite heavily when the W Active was released making it quite meh in terms of fighting power difference. Before the nerfs, when Varus would kill someone, he would gain a huge amount of Attack Speed making him feel like a monster and rewarding him in a sense for killing someone. Whereas now it's kinda like meh okay, here's an okay boost. Putting the power aside, it's just simply a really boring Passive (just another Attack Speed Steroid) when looking at Varus, there's a lot of potential that could replace it and make it a more creative Passive than what it is now.

E - Hail of Arrows: You would think that an AoE Slow with Grievous Wounds would be a really strong ability, well as it turns out it's quite a disappointing ability. This ability is mostly used as a way to enable Varus to kite better due to his immobility, but I don't understand the reasoning to this day about why his E needs Grievous Wounds it's not like the enemy is going to stay inside the small radius circle that has a short duration. It also takes too long to cast, which opens up a window to being engaged on while you're casting it.

Noor SakataJun 29, 20182 votes

he doesn't need a buff , it's just other champions needs nerfs

KlydeFrogJun 29, 20182 votes

All he needs would be a higher movement speed

TheDeviceJun 29, 20181 votes

Can confirm.

He gets poked out of lane pretty easily actually. I think he needs a buff to his auto range.

SpeeedyJun 29, 20184 votes

definitely not, attack range isn't the problem at all since hes slightly above average at 575 to the normal 550.

TheDeviceJun 29, 20182 votes

I would argue he doesn't have any escape tools unlike cait who has a higher base auto range.

Daddy AntsJun 29, 20188 votes

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Can confirm.

He gets poked out of lane pretty easily actually. I think he needs a buff to his auto range.

Absolutely not.

575 is above average attack range.

He needs some actual damage back in kit.

D357R0Y3RJun 29, 20181 votes

he doesn't need more damage he needs 335 base ms

KlydeFrogJun 29, 20181 votes

That has nothing to do with patch.

My Waifu VanillaJun 30, 20181 votes

Every ADC getting their hp regen thrown in the toilet definitely gets you poked out of lane more

Daddy AntsJun 29, 20181 votes

This is what happens when cancer like Kaisa MasterYi abuse his core item.

Malix FarwinJun 29, 20181 votes

Well the thing is, if we are going to support a more diverse meta i think a few things need to happen with ADC.

Their tankiness/sustain needs to be buffed across the board. The ones under performing should be buffed further on top of that.

With enchanter supports nerfed, ADCs have a lot less protections now and should be compensated for that. Shields were oppressive but the adcs themselves should naturally be more sturdy.

Somebody Love MeJun 30, 20181 votes

I don't want "right click till it dies" Varus buffed. I want skillshot Varus.

But we can't have skillshot Varus because lethality exists. But even lethality Varus died when you got onto him.

HayaishiJun 30, 20181 votes

Varus' Q, passive and W need to be buffed.

His Q was flat out gutted. His passive is back to having a very low impact, and the W active doesn't justify the loss in on-hit damage, the W active should also have lower cooldown based on rank.

In short he needs a kit update, Varus was only good because rageblade was OP.