Would you say Varus would need Aatrox level of Improvements (Powershift, Mechanic Changes)?

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I know that I must annoy boards whenever I decide to discuss the following Champion (and i'm sorry to all those that I do). But I can't help it, all I want when playing Varus is for him not to feel so extremely punishing/un-rewarding, and the whole point of this thread is to hopefully get some feedback from you all and potentially Riot.

• His Q Slows him by 20%, reduces the damage dealt per unit hit (reduced at max 33% when hitting the 5th target).

• His W 3 Stack Detonation with Abilities Mechanic just doesn't work well or feel satisfying (it's his main source of damage and where he opens himself up for a free engage while he stacks his Blight stacks in about roughly 4.8 seconds with 0.6 Attack Speed at early levels).

• His E zone is only roughly about 325 Units where it could easily be walked out of or dashed out of. It also has a 25 - 45% Slow that scales with ability rank (so it won't have too much effectiveness because it's not an ability that Varus maxes first) and it also has Grievous Wounds attached to it (where it won't have any purpose most of the time if the enemy team isn't going to invest into any serious Healing like Dr Mundo or Vlad).

• His R as cool as it is, feels like it's consuming most of Varus' Powerbudget (and what makes him a decent pro play pick).

It's also really underwhelming when players tell me to fight and I tell them that I can't because oftenly I find myself in the following situations; I have no Mana or my Abilities are on an average 18 - 16 Second Cooldown and I have to tell them that I can't because my Auto Attacks don't deal enough damage on their own without my abilities which are only available every so often).

Aatrox has been getting a lot of experimentational changes on PBE (and Riot has been asking to get some feedback from players to see where improvement can take place in his kit) and they are attempting to improve his gameplay to be less punishing/more rewarding, while also trying to make him more healthier to play against (for example, in PBE you can now see Aatrox's E charges just below his health bar as a way to make him more fair to face I assume).

##Do you guys agree that Varus needs Mechanical Changes or Powershift changes to make him more viable in SoloQ and less effective for Pro Play?