So I've gone bot Lane as ap varus and have been successfull since I modified my mastery tree and build, nashors is core, rageblade, berserker greaves, runaans, deathcap and lichbane, if your doing really good I would sell boots for botrk ( makes your w do more damage) I like doing this build the core items are nashors rageblade and runaans
Wolfess1 votesBotrk doesn't make your W do more damage, it's just another on-hit effect. Also I could probably recommend trading in runaans for wits end. It gives you atk speed but it also gives you bonus on-hit damage AND magic resist shredding debuff that really helps to hit hard since AP varus relies on his autos to stack blight so you will be auto attacking anyway.
I personally have not tested the new rageblade on varus yet, so I can't comment too much on that but i would imagine that it might be good on teamfights with a crowded enemy team (also unsure on how it interacts with runnan's extra bolts.)
Personally I prefer a nuke AP varus thatcan burst down squishies in 3-autos and an ult and can also shred down tanks with its amazing % max hp damage. The thing is you want to be able to burst people down in as few rotations as possible IMO because of cooldowns and having to auto-atk less. His ult has 100% ap scaling that can definitely reach 1k magic damage with nashor's, deathcap, and a zhonyas with other prefered ap items. I usually get around 20% max hp damage per blight stack, usually killing squishies with 3 autos and an ult. Tanks will also get shredded with 3 autos, E, 3 autos, Q. (damn man I miss DFG....) or leave them close to dead while wondering where the hell their hp went.
Also note that since siege minions have negative magic resist, AP varus can easily kill them with 3 autos and a proc with decent ap. This makes him extremely potent at defending base when inhibitors are down. Note also that due to requiring blight stacks to proc his burst damage that it's usually a decent idea to have some sort of defensive plan built into his items (Usually, though not required. Just a contingency plan usually saved for enemy team's adc or other bursty champ) to make sure he lives to get his procs off.
the one downside I feel that AP varus has is that he doesn't have quite as strong lane presence since his Q doesn't scale with ap and that's a pretty big part of his kit in laning and trading/harassing.
khorney1 votesI know about the wits end people don't realize how strong that item Is and runaans I found to be better for teamfighting wits end is better solo, and yes the w botrk makes his aa do more on hit which is why I get it, how they changed his ult Is why I do it like this his ultimate puts 3 stacks on it.
HeCTiC 6ft dp1 votesIf you're building AP Varus correctly, you don't want to go 
since his W already scales with the enemies health. It would just be redundant.
The first item you should always get would be
. I can't stress this enough. Varus is a champion that benefits from both AD & AP. He is also a champion that lacks attack speed. This item addresses all of his biggest weaknesses and is a gigantic game changer in the early phases.
The next item taken should be either 
or 
depending on how the game is going.
After that, you're kind of free to build what you want according to how the game is playing out and what the other team is building. However, I recommend 
since you should have fairly decent AD & AP at this point and its passive combined with movement, mana, and cooldown reduction only benefit Varus further.
khorney1 votesi get botrk as a boot replacement if i have all my items, on hit effect is still on hit effect damage and runaans is for the to hit more peeps at once building stacks of rageblade and w stacks combo is 3 stacks ult e 3 stacks and q
HeCTiC 6ft dp1 votes would be foolish even as a boot replacement at full build. You would be better off getting and then replacing the boots with 
. You will still have viable movement speed, and you'll still increase your damage output.
I promise you, is a bad item for AP Varus. Its viable for AD Varus.
khorney1 votesi do get lich bane
