Manamune Varus

Zodiance·6/23/2015, 7:18:04 AM·1 votes·3,495 views

My personal thoughts on this probably 90% pick rate mid champ now. Early game: Harass out the ass. Mid game: Manamunes done, you're dead. Late game: Pre-Rework Nidalee 2.0

Varus as an adc is fine, but when you bring him to mid lane, with a root for assassins, and unbearably strong poke against any meta mage, its a little bit ridiculous. He can harass you just as far, if not farther than xerath can with his Q, which might I mention, seems to be stronger than xeraths Q. He can still do damage with his autos, so if you get in his face, he can still beat the crap out of you. Think, oh wait, ill just play a burst assassin? Ha. Good luck. Anyone with decent reaction time on Varus will immediately root you, auto 3 times Q and youre dead. No chance. The champion is ridiculous with Manamune. His Q was strong enough without that item becoming meta on him, especially in the mid lane. Not to mention the cooldown on it mid game being around 4 seconds. If you have any disadvantage in lane toward mid game, you can kiss farm goodbye. Might as well go trio lane with bot or something. Pretty sure its a good sign that he's overpowered right now when you play a couple arams and you see people talking about using all the teams rerolls to get him. Played 5 arams, every single one, Manamune Varus. (This is just a side note, the post is about SR). Anyone else agree that Varus mid is a little overpowered with the Manamune pick?

TO BE CLEAR: MID MANAMUNE VARUS OP. MID VARUS IS FINE. ADC VARUS IS FINE. The manamune pick in the usually squishy mid lane is just a little overbearing.

7 Comments

The Loveless6/23/2015, 2:08:45 PM1 votes

Manamune doesn't give much ad when completed. I'd rather buy stronger ad items to kill people quicker than annoy them with Qs.

I've played mid Varus in previous seasons; haven't jumped on the hype train this season, but I can tell you just by looking at popular builds that they could save mana AND kill people faster if they went with an 80 ad item first.

What's worse is when I see the 60 ad muramana coupled with 70 ad from lw and ghostblade. No matter how much pen or true damage you think you get from that, you're better off with two of the BF sword items and lw/bc. At least your occasional basic attacks would also be meaningful.

Shrek Luigi6/23/2015, 3:09:22 PM1 votes

KogMaw EzrealJayce mid marksmans OP

Abyssphere6/23/2015, 3:27:23 PM1 votes

His pick rate is 6% right now just so you know.

To be honest I don't disagree that he needs some rebalancing though. I don't think Varus as a whole is too strong but far, far too much of his power is loaded into his Q and that's the only reason he's seeing any play mid. They should take some power out of his Q and buff his passive or his W, maybe both.

Erockandroll6/23/2015, 6:07:20 PM1 votes

I do love poke comps, I just find it sad that in said comps

this Jayce Ezreal KogMaw Varus

has all but replaced this Ziggs Xerath Nidalee

And I think it has something to do with the Siege mages, Mana Regen. Even with Luden's they haven't quite recovered.

BeatzBoyFTW6/24/2015, 6:01:26 AM1 votes

idgaf. I'm just glad that assassin champs nowadays get phased out by the unpopular ones.