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Varus - The corrupted Arrow of Retribution

Kowe The Ewok··1 votes·949 views

The following post is a suggestion to shift Varus abilities and add a Karma/Blanc-ish compotent to make his kit overall more flexible. varus current kit: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Varus (Lore: Varus is a temple Guardian who failed his mission, seeking revenge he allowed himself to get corrupted and teh corruption consumed him)

Varus ultimate gets shifted to "Corruption". Corruption can have up to 1/2/3 stacks. After using an ability (1.5s) Varus can corrupt it for an additional effect. Basically it's Karma's ultimate but used AFTER the ability got casted.

Piercing Arrow: stays as it is (New Empowered: Corrupted Arrow): After reaching its maximum range Pircing Arrow "seeks" another target within 700 range (It basically "bounces").

Blighted Quiver: New Active: Explodes Bligth stacks within 500 / 750 / 1000 / 1250 / 1500 range. COST: 70 COOLDOWN: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 (New Empowered: Corrupted Blight) Applies 1 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 3 blights stacks to all enemies which were damaged by blight within the last 1.5s.

Hail of Arrows Removed Now: Bolt of Corruption RANGE: 800 COST: 100 COOLDOWN: 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 Varus flings out a tendril of corruption that infects the first enemy champion hit, dealing physical damage and rooting them for 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds. 65 / 100 / 135 / 170 / 205 (+ 60% bonus AD) (Same as "Hail of Arrows) (Empowered: Chain of Corruption) The corruption spreads to ONE nearby target, dealing the same amount of damage.

(New "Ultimate") Corruption: Varus empowers his last used ability (timeframe 1.5s) and corrupts it adding a follow-up effect. One spell can be corrupted several times. Normal cooldowns apply.

Level 0: 1 Stack 45s CD Level 1: 1 Stack 40s CD Level 2: 2 Stack 35s CD Level 3: 3 stacks 30s CD

Pro:

  • Triggering Blight gets easier by a corruputed Q
  • Blight can be applied more easily:
  • Varus becomes more flexible
  • Blight can be expldoed mroe easily

Cons:

  • Varus looses the damage of one ability
  • Chain of Corruption "ultimate" can't corrupt a whole team anymore and is stack- intensive

7 Comments

The Epicer ONe1 votes

As long as blight scales with ad. if it isnt changed to ad, this is a massive nerf.

Kowe The Ewok1 votes

As long as blight scales with ad. if it isnt changed to ad, this is a massive nerf.

Because of the increased cooldown and the 1 reduced ability damage? That might be true, I was very cautious because of the Corrupted Blight because you can explode 6 stacks in a quick timeframe.

But I'm totally up for a discussion - where exactly do you see a nerf?

Hayaishi1 votes

It's not about the power level, that is not Varus.

Specially his new E.

Kowe The Ewok1 votes

It's not about the power level, that is not Varus.

Specially his new E.

His new E is his old R? (When corrupted)

Lord Graves III1 votes

Varus's R didn't really feel like it belonged anyway.

Lord Graves III1 votes

I don't like it.

I don't understand the problems it is trying to solve.

If varus is weak he can be buffed.

What fundamental problem does he have requiring drastic changes?

For my money, he doesn't feel sniper-ey enough, and his play patterns are split. He wants to autoattack because of his W but he is encouraged to use Q to poke or start fights. He can't Q then pop the W stacks with Q, the play pattern is just kinda split. He also doesn't really do anything to have a niche. Varus is a very unclear champion.

I don't understand what your rework is supposed to fix and why.

Kowe The Ewok1 votes

I don't like it.

I don't understand the problems it is trying to solve.

If varus is weak he can be buffed.

What fundamental problem does he have requiring drastic changes?

For my money, he doesn't feel sniper-ey enough, and his play patterns are split. He wants to autoattack because of his W but he is encouraged to use Q to poke or start fights. He can't Q then pop the W stacks with Q, the play pattern is just kinda split. He also doesn't really do anything to have a niche. Varus is a very unclear champion.

I don't understand what your rework is supposed to fix and why.

His cooldowns are too high to consistently proc stacks, thus Q can hit additional targets and W can proc them. The corrupted W gives gves him better tank shredding possibilities. His ultimate didn't even have an AD scaling which made made it ignore able lategame (casters can still vast, carries can still attack while rooted). His E took so long to activate thatit helped your enemies to rech you. The change from R to E aims at making it a more flexible root while shifting the power of spreading to the new corruption machanic in order to keep it from becoming overpowered.

Corruption is a huge part of Varus' lore.

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