I'm an old league player and sentimental so... I guess I'll just leave this here because I think enough has already been said on all those other posts. A picture is worth a thousand words. Look upon my words.
oh no varus read his new lore
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jesus i just realized the locket isnt even cannon now
its not in the music video or the comics
Never noticed in-game but his feet are really janky, almost like elf shoes
This image is very powerful, and important in a game where the players should understand a character in a quick glance.
Looks like Varus is crying 
You've punched me in the feels. Thanks.
Not sure why it posted twice.
RIP Varus, I hope you joined your family and found peace now.
dude i love this animation. in terms of his lore, its why i love varus. no homo.
the look of a man when you rip his wife and child out of his life forever.
Varus may be gone, but never forget who he was. Never forget our forsaken archer, who only wanted to protect... and lost everything for it.
No matter what trash lore Riot throws at us and refuses to revert - no matter how large the backlash, no matter how many people are okay with a champion being erased and rewritten for shitty reasoning, never forget the champion.
Varus is the man, the _singular _ man, who couldn't protect everything he loved. To punish those who would dare callously take loved ones from others, he resorted to that which he could not let the enemy obtain. To avenge his family.
"I'm on borrowed time." None of us who loved Varus' as he was truly knew the extent of that statement until now. Looks like Varus' time has run out.
But now... now maybe the Varus we knew... the _true _ Varus can finally be at peace. His tortured, tired soul can finally be with his family. And that's all he ever wanted.
Farewell Varus. Soar through the skies you used to gaze toward with your family now. For eternity.
I find this song fitting for Varus: https://youtu.be/OjwdLP561cc?list=PLArUsNsLlbh1UM1AUnVaAsoEBXXi5NV0n Vanishing. Like smoke in the wind. His humanity whisked away in one brief moment, one brief decision, so that he could gain the power he needed to avenge his family. Slowly, his being was vanishing - and he knew that. And at the end of the song (6:21 to the end) - a chaotic, turmoil feeling, fading away. To the next life. To his family.
I never noticed Varus has one giant toenail.
It is a shame that the locket's gone and they couldn't even acknowledge it in the new lore though.
I'm not crying, i-i just need to fill up my . A-almost have it full!
Riot, how could you erase Varus. He has a family! And on his birthday too, you monsters.
#justiceForVarusFamily
idk i LOVED this idle so much. one of the best idles in the game and one of the biggest reasons (beside his cool bow-feeling and voice) why i played him more than any other adc. (and i am no adc-main!)
will it get removed? I HOPE NOT!!! >:(
Cry more you children, the new varus lore is much better than the old lore.
so i remeber old varus lore even tho i never really played him much. (use to play him fairly often a couple seasons ago tho). it seems that the issue with this new varus is that its 3 people rather than one on top of the fact that the name "varus" actually now belongs to the darkin if im not mistaken. if the fusion just created one new person, and that new person was varus who was entirely different from the 3 individuals who created him then that would be rather cool. yes that is kind of whats going on to a degree, but only with the appearance. the other 3 personalities are still very much present and constantly fighting for control of the body.
Basically what im saying is that it should have been like a Dragon ball Z type fusion. the entity "varus" that was created from the 3 should have been an entirely different person but with the traits of the darkin and 2 humans that made him. this means he would have a strong sense for vengeance, but his vengeance would be guided by justice just like the old varus. also, the entity in the music vid really doesnt look like a darkin in the way aatrox and rhaast does. he looks like a human with an astral body.
Honestly I think his idle animation still could make sense, it isn't kai or val who is looking at the amulet but it is Varus looking reminiscing about his Darkin brethren. His new lore said he was armored or had a emerald like form before being trap so the crystal could be from the good old days.
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I liked the old Varus, and I'll miss him. A lot of champs in League feel like they're ripped out of a sandbox game; they're just kind of... there, existing. They don't have any real end goals or motivations on a grander scale, and just live their lives. Varus had a story going on, he had real goals and motives, and took the steps to go and meet them. His life ended, and he took in this power that would one day corrupt him in the hopes that he could finish what he needed to do before then.
Now we just have an SJW token champion who has no real meaning or purpose, no depth, or anything really. His only purpose is to be a banner that Riot can wave around to show they support the whole LGBTQASDKJGASDLKWhatever garbage -- probably in order to make more money.
Ok this is more than a little ridiculous. His old lore wasn't a novel or that well established. Actually was it even more than a couple of paragraphs of text?
Like I'd understand if the characters and his family were from a novel or serial comic which took effort to build up and thus players had time to get attached but seriously? A couple of paragraphs... [slayer-jinx-unamused]
