How to make Varus viable

forrest716··1 votes·559 views

I've been thinking on how to make Varus viable in the current meta, and I have two changes that I would propose to make it work. First, Varus's number one weakness is his immobility, I would say that his current e (hail of arrows) should be scrapped and a new e that is a grapple should be added. This grapple would be able to stick to champions, walls, turrets, ect. It would have a double activation, the first being the skill shot and the second being a dash to the target. If the skill shot lands but the second part is not activated it will act as a tether with a max length until activated or it times out. The tether will not cc the target but only form the tether.

The second change I propose is add an ap ratio to Piercing Arrow, which would make trinity force a powerful buy on Varus, and solidifying his ADC caster position. These changes would turn Varus into a mixed damage caster ADC with a usable escape and initiate, making his early game (which was strong before) better with the escape and his mid game vary viable. He will still tail off in the late game making him still balanced.

12 Comments

Truly Prideful5 votes

Not everything in the game needs to have a dash.

WolfChases3 votes

Imo Varus is just underestimated atm. His damage is good, he has a good range, good poke, sweet amount of CC. If you ask me, the only way to make people play Varus more often is to reduce his mana costs because they are a bit high.

Eggstealer2 votes

He and Ashe are both centered around initiators/cc centered ult and that's pretty much their main gig. if you want him to be more like corki or ezreal the ult would need to be changed too.

khorney1 votes

Yes but ashe is better ashe w is better then varus q. And her ult is global . varus ult should be global like gangplank or bard that would make him way better and his poke is okay

Crett1 votes

the grapple. the grapple will have an ap ratio too right?

forrest7161 votes

it wouldn't have to, think corki

OperationDEEZ11 votes

League of Mobility.

khorney1 votes

Well change his q to instant cast like tf and get rid of the damge reduction. And his passive is worthless

Siyther1 votes

he just really needs a better passive and i would play him more

Enkidusmurf1 votes

Varus is perfectly viable (in fact, really strong) in the current meta. His immobility is supposed to be his weakness. Yeah, he's got crazy damage and a 1600 unit snipe. And contagious hard cc. But if you have any kind of mobility at all, you can get away. That's how it's supposed to work.

He's especially strong in the current meta because we're seeing a lot of duo tank teams (e.g. Sej jungle and Maokai top). When you stack and proc his W with the aforementioned 1600 range snipe, you deal %health magic damage. Suppose you build a BoRK on top of that. That means you have an AD caster who does mixed %health damage on both his autos and his abilities. On top of that, he's got an E that reduces healing and hard cc to make you hold still while he gets his 3-auto+ability combo off.

That's not weak, man.

LadyRenly1 votes

Wait until Varus is played in LCS.

People will rage about his kit is "bs" and needs to be nerfed. Varus is great.

Terff1 votes

He already was, in a recent match in fact. I think their team lost though :/

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