Varus; quality of life changes

Snakethrower·10/8/2014, 6:36:59 AM·1 votes·1,241 views

Cooldown down to: 13 / 11 / 9 / 7 / 5 (Note that the charge time of the ability isn't reflected by cooldown, but decreases the time between casts) Charge duration reduced by 0,5s Minimum damage increased to 45%

W: Now deals physical damage

E: Delay reduced by 0.3s Can be cast while moving.

Explanation: Varus is possibly the least played carry. His steroid is unreliable, his % health damage doesn't apply instantly but has to be triggered by a lond CD skillshot. His E has a long animation an stopps you from kiting/chasing more than it helps.

Looking at the fact that his steroid passive is not only weak, but also unreliable I consider above suggestions more than fair.

11 Comments

Deep Terror Nami10/8/2014, 6:40:31 AM3 votes

R already only affects champions, does it not?

Doogmi10/8/2014, 8:25:23 AM1 votes

Not sure why play rate matters, he is immobile so he isn't played as often. He has considerable CDs to gate how often he can deal %max health. Seems reasonable to me. You can proc his w passive with q/e/r, it isnt like you have your blight fully stacked and cant detonate them lol. Also mixed damage is stronger than one damage source. Having it deal on hit magic damage and proc %max health as magic damage makes it harder to itemize defensively against him. Much like corki. In lane it is very simple to keep his 20% as bonus up with the waves. And with his team fight ult and 1300 range q it isn't too difficult to keep his 40% as bonus up. I agree he should be able to move while casting e, no issues with the cast time. His ult passes through minions, has a missile speed of 2000( same as an ez q) and has a range of 1075. Which I don't agree is short ranged considering it is almost double his aa range and spreads to other targets within 600 range of the infected champ. And furthermore I have no idea why you would want his r to hit minions except maybe wave clear? Yet varus has great clear using his q charge while a wave is still single file hitting all 6 minions then 1-2 autos to finish them off.(same technique with cait q) varus just lacks the ability to deal with gapclosers without blowing his ultimate. And if he does that he just put his best tool for team fights on CD simply in an attempt to survive.

Goth Thot10/8/2014, 10:26:55 AM1 votes

Riot should buff his mana costs too, Varus has a really fun kit and I enjoy playing him but even late game I find myself running out of mana really quickly and can't ever come along to a fight after farming without recalling first because I won't have the mana to see it through.

Also a little buff to his W that I saw suggested a while back that always felt pretty thematic would be for blight stacks to automatically detonate if Varus dies. As an immobile carry he'll be focused and blown up a lot before he gets any chance to charge q, this'll give him an extra benefit for trying to kite it out without that.