Improving Varus.

coalitionknights··2 votes·259 views

I was wondering if anyone knows whether or not virus will be getting a buff/mini rework anytime soon. half of his kit feels really strong to me while the other half only seems out of place for what riot was trying to go for in the champ. His q feels amazing and is one of the longest ranged pokes in the game. Along with his reasonably long ranged ult he definitely feels more like a poke caster then anything else which i assume is what riot was going for. what i can't seem to figure out is his w passive. why create an amazing poke champ that must come within auto range to utilize half of his kit. even when one is brave enough to venture closer to a fight, the now completely glass canon champ is at risk of a subtle breeze sending him to a grey screen; and for what? a mediocre amount of extra damage. this is the basic problem of high risk, low reward. The only way to utilize his w is to go for an Ap build and this is where you run into the problem of his split kit. you must choose whether or not you want Ap or ad; choosing either of them results in a broken under utilized kit. when someone plays a champion they expect to use every ability, but as of now it just feels pointless. I understand that to make his W passive damage scale off Ad would just be asking for a long ranged Illaoi, and i also get why they put the W passive on his auto because thy can't have all his damage to come from somewhere that you can't touch him but please make it more rewarding to utilize the damage, or just get ride of the ability altogether and build a new one that suits his kit more. perhaps a long range non damaging ability?

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HongChongDong1 votes

It's to give him a way to fight tanks. it's not meant to give him more power as a champion, it's meant to give him an option when faced against tanks. When an ability is given an AP ration on an AD champion it means that riot sees the ability as being complete, and doesn't wish to give it any more power. If anything, the community who regularly plays varus agrees that the thing that needs to be changed is his passive.

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