What does NA think of this build?

Furor Nexis··1 votes·662 views

So, seeing the Korean Build hype for Lucian and MF, I decided to have a go at my own version for Varus.

It, uhh. Well, it works pretty decently. I will make a disclaimer and say I've only tried it out in one game, but it's pretty strong. Hell, it even helped well into late game for Varus, and everyone knows that his late scale gaming isn't exactly the best. I had the perfect opponent to go against too, Lucian himself.

So what's the build? Well I played to Varus' strengths and weaknesses. I could go and do a super 6 damage items build, whatever, but his immobility was a pretty big kicker into it, and exposes him greatly, and I was going versus a very mobile team that consisted of Lee, Ekko, Lucian, Lux & Jayce.

item 3142 This was my first to go option for two reasons: The first is for CDR, and the second is for it's active ability, especially for the MS. item 3009 I took swifties to increase my movement speed, as I said Varus is super immobile. It helped greatly for going to or retreating from situations. item 3004 Standard reasoning, I played into Varus' poke and mana so I can have a constant presence. It helped me out alot, as it soon allowed me to gain an advantage over Lucian due to baiting out his dash every time I could so I could punish him with a follow-up Q and the mana pool to support it.

item 3071 Hey ADC's can use this now too! So why the hell not? Extra HP, decent damage, and stacking Armour pen on top of Youmuu's helped me do some savage auto-attacks. Also feeling less squishy while still having a great damage output is an amazing feeling.

item 3085 Most of the game was spent playing cat & mouse due to the circumstances in which the enemy team gained a massive advantage for the majority of the game, so I needed a decent item for quick waveclearing. Runaan's helped me for three primary reasons: I hadn't bought any attack speed items yet, nor did I have crit. So this benefited me as it gave me an even bigger boost to my MS, I now had crit, decent attack speed as well as a great waveclear.

item 3156 This thing is a god damn life saver. Massive damage, nice shield, and a well needed MR stat considering I was going up versus both Lux & Ekko.

item 2138 This item proved to be the key for me surviving into late game. Varus falls off near the time of late-game, and he becomes redundant as an ADC save for his ultimate, which is a great CC ability. I bought Elixir to increase both my own chances of survival and so I can still contribute damage wise to my team.

Runes: Flat AD Marks, 2 AD Quints, 1 AS Quint, flat armour seals, x6 MR glyphs and X3 scaling MR

Masteries: 18-12, with Deathfire Touch as my keystone.

My thoughts on it are mixed. It's pretty strong. The amount of damage I do even without popping Blight stacks is mind-blowing. I'm still going to experiment with it more however.

6 Comments

SummonerPeeps1 votes

A good Varus build would be

item 3142item 3085 item 3036 item 3071 item 3009

last item item 3153 or item 3031

basically last item you'll want bork if your aiming for a full tank buster build, IE if they have a lot of squishy carries that you need to beat.

Furor Nexis1 votes

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A good Varus build would be

item 3142item 3085 item 3036 item 3071 item 3009

last item item 3153 or item 3031

basically last item you'll want bork if your aiming for a full tank buster build, IE if they have a lot of squishy carries that you need to beat.

Well, for this game I played more to the enemy team comp I had. I'll admit that they were tanky, but they had little armour. They were all super mobile, bar Lux, so I kinda tried to evolve myself around that.

SummonerPeeps1 votes

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Well, for this game I played more to the enemy team comp I had. I'll admit that they were tanky, but they had little armour. They were all super mobile, bar Lux, so I kinda tried to evolve myself around that.

bork wouldn't have been a bad choice still because it helps you kite, keep in mind the active is a slow for the enemy and a speed boost for you

Viocie1 votes

item 3142 item 3147 item 3071 as core item, then item 3031 used this build as MissFortune and melts everything i saw a varus with youmuu too yesterday and he has decent dmg too..

SummonerPeeps1 votes

You can go the more traditional path though and just follow the typical ADC build on him

item 3142 item 3508 item 3036 item 3085 item 3031

item 3006 or item 3009

Furor Nexis1 votes

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You can go the more traditional path though and just follow the typical ADC build on him

item 3142 item 3508 item 3036 item 3085 item 3031

item 3006 or item 3009

See I have gone the typical ADC build for him for the majority of the time I've played him. I've mained Varus since S5, and I do wanna find ways to keep his effect in the late game more potential, since he does scale poorly into late game. It's fun experimenting on this build for him though, I'm really enjoying it.

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