The most broken champion in LoL History; A theorycraft.

So yesterday I created a thread about fun builds and had my example as a Jungling AP Varus. Someone made a comment about AP Varus being able to hit 100% Max HP Damage. I thought it was initially something of fallacy until a couple of friends and myself who are Varus enthusiasts took it upon ourselves to see if we could theoretically make this true.

For those unaware, Varus W: Blighted Quiver, deals up to 5% maximum health damage, plus an extra 2% for every 100 AP. This is an effect that stacks up three times, and when these blight stacks are popped by any of Varus' other abilites, the % Max HP is taken from the target. On his AP builds; this is pretty strong. But it's incredibly weak early game, and is only really oppressive during the late game where most players would have all of their items

For the last 2 hours we were thinking of what could potentially achieve this.

First; we needed to find out how to deal that amount of damage. To achieve a 100% Max HP Damage, with calculations; Varus would need over 1400 AP.

With the following items; including additives from item passives: 3 fully stacked Rod of Ages, 1 Archangel's Staff, 1 fully stacked Mejai's Soulstealer, and 1 Rabadon's Deathcap. We achieved 1141.53 Ability Power. This totals to 83.5% Max HP Damage.

So we got thinking and started thinking outside of items.

We decided to add the passives from Monster Buffs, as well as 1 time use items like the elixirs. To further boost this limit, we looked at buffs that would affect AP count.

This includes: Hand of The Baron Infernal Dragon Elder Dragon Crest of Insight (Blue Buff) Elixir of Sorcery.

Eventually, after we got our numbers correct we did a re-count. The following items and effects are needed.

• 3 maxed out Rod of Ages

• 1 Archangel's Staff

• 1 Mejai's Soul Stealer with full Glory

• 1 Rabadon's Deathcap

• 1 Elixir of Sorcery

• Hand of The Baron

• 3 Infernal Dragon Buffs

• Elder Dragon Buff

• Crest of Insight

At minimum, this equals to 1473.03 Ability Power At maximum, it equals to 1550.43

Result: 108% Max Health Damage from 3 Blight Stack Explosions.

To put this into perspective: Varus' ultimate; Chain of Corruption roots the first target hit for 2 seconds and spreads in an AoE to other players around it, catching them and rooting them too. It deals 250+ 100% of your Ability Power. A 1:1 scaling AP ratio. Not only do you have now an oppressively strong passive, but coupled with your AP it's now an insanely damaging tool of destruction.

Oh. It also automatically applies 3 stacks of blight for each champion it catches.

So what does this mean?

A few things:

1. Your ultimate will delete anything squishy by itself.
2. You can quite literally 2-shot a full HP Build Zac / Cho'Gath.
3. The easiest penta-kills ever.
4. You'll never hear the end of people accusing you of cheating and using "bullshit hax!"
5. "Rito delet this!!!!!"
6. The most broken and unbalanced champion in League of Legends history. The funny thing about this is, Varus is actually one of THE MOST balanced champions in the game, across all of his builds. Even his current AP Build can only do between 30-45% Max HP damage, and that's only if you get fed to be able to get all of your items by a 40 minute mark at the minimum.

Is this possible to achieve in a game? On most accounts, 99.9% not a hope in hell. If one were to be extremely lucky, as possibly being the .01% to be lucky to snag both the items and buffs and having the luck of 3 reds spawning, as well as grabbing hand of the baron and the 3 red dragons and an elder dragon, it would most likely make your entire enemy team rage quit out of disgust.

Hope you enjoyed reading this!

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