Is anything meaningful going to be done about Varus?

ProxyDamage·2/18/2015, 2:32:58 PM·1 votes·775 views

As the title says. Are there any plans to do any meaningful changes/buffs to Varus? He's just dysfunctional... Has been since as far as I can remember.

There are basically 2 kinds of viable ADCs in LoL - Ones that have mobility to stay safe, or late game hypercarries that just put out obscene amounts of damage to make up for their lack of survivability, preferably with decent range as well. You have a spectrum ranging from characters like Ezreal and Corki with lots of mobility, to characters like Vayne, Kog'Maw and Jinx who just put out obscene damage...

Queue Varus who is neither.

He has 0 mobility. He has some minimal and risky disengage if he has his ultimate... But that's it. Stands to reason that he would rely on his damage and utility late game.

Well... No. Because his damage output is awkward and limited.

"But his passive can do up to 15% maximum health in magic damage after 3 shots...and a skill...!"

Yeah, and requiring a skill to trigger it means he gets to do it approximately 3 times during a fight. Rarely to more than one target at a time. Meanwhile Kog'Maw is going to do 6% per shot from much longer range for as long as his steroid is up and vayne is going to do 8% maximum health in true damage every 3 shots. Even Gnar gets 14% every 3 hits with no further limitations...

"But what about his passive!? His passive gives him attack speed on kills or assists! So you just need to get the first kill with his kit and then you get the steroid!"

Except the steroid is a pathetic 40% increase on what's already a limited availability conditional steroid... Tristana has 110% on demand. Jinx has 130% as long as she gets minigun shots in every 3 seconds or so, on top of the extra 10% damage per rocket shot. Kog'Maw has 30% passive... all the time. Graves gets 70% on his dash, on demand... Even Gnar has 60% on demand!

Even his skills don't hit hard enough or scale hard enough to justify his lack of everything else. And they have fairly high cooldowns...

So is anything going to be done to Varus? A buff to mobility? Or to his damage? Maybe reseting his skills on kills and assists so he can keep using them to trigger his Blight? Or maybe removing the need to trigger the stacks with a skill?

There's a ton of different things you can do depending on which side of his identity you prefer to reinforce, but for the love of god do something to salvage the poor bastard...

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AnCa2/18/2015, 2:37:01 PM1 votes

Look at Varus, then look at Kalista. Hmmm ok........what with the unfair treatment. The utility, the ultimate, the damage, mobility.......