User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Varus, the Arrow of Retribution/@comment-1920550-20150510051944

Whelp i was thinking of doing one for Varus when i had the time, even had a full kit in mind but you beat me to it. Also did you do any stat changes? This is one of my favourite ADC's so i'm gonna be mincemeat through this rework. Ok, so my thoughts, spell by spell.

Passive: Moving the W into the base passive is a no-brainer. The comunity wants Varus' W to be his pure passive about as much as they want Teemo deleted from the game.

Q: Increased damage and the idea of making the charge time being reduced by attack speed is a genius move.

W: It reminds me alot of Trist's current E, except with more range. Chaining it with Piercing Arrow should generate large amounts of AOE poke and damage, a nice spell overall.

E: I don't like it. From where i see it having massive extra AA range is awesome when you can back it with something else (crits, %health damage, ATK speed steroid). This Varus rework has the same problem the live Varus has (unless you can combo really well with a nicely placed Parting Shot into Piercing Arrow may alleviate some of the issue) which is a lack of Blight Stacks application and explosion on more than one target.

R: I like how you resolved the spreading duration of the secondary rooting. Overall nice thoughts.

End thoughts. Your rework direction was substantially different from the one i had in mind. From where i see it Varus is a utility based, teamfighting ADC (although with issues of his own), where this rework converted him more into a poke-based AD caster, a physical damage version of Ziggs or Xerath if you will. I like the idea alot but it feels more suited as a an AD caster midlaner sort of kit, than that of an ADC. Also don't get me wrong but your removal of the little steroids on Varus's kit was not the best. The extra damage on the W, 575 attack range and passive steroid are little, but actually nice things that makes Varus, a surprisingly decent duelist in the early to mid game. I throughly enjoyed the notion of this rework, but i leave you the question if your rework doesn't force Varus out of the ADC role and into a more mid-lane AD-midlane role. Overall 8/10 for this rework.