Talk:Varus/@comment-66.222.188.175-20121227223207/@comment-4916873-20121228095322

AP Varus == Hybrid Varus

"Nashor's, Malady, Rabadon's, and Guinsoo"

I will never ever say and have never ever said to anyone that Malady is an early game goal. The item as-is currently is appaling. The other items are extremely powerful though.

"but that's hard to achieve with AD items;"

You're not getting any AD items, you're building hybrid items which offer both physical and magical stats. These items are generally more cost-efficiënt than flat school items and thus it is easily possible to achieve 450 AP. If you want more than +-450 AP you will have to get an elixer and Baron Nashor's buff.

There should be some posts on this wiki page containing the full build and all, you might want to search for them. To keep it short:

(Doran's Blade / Boots-3-Pots) > Berserker's Greaves > Stinger > Pickaxe > Guinsoo's Rageblade > Nashor's Tooth > (Either get Catalyst here, or build it later) > Rabadon's Deathcap > finish with Catalyst into RoA and Runaan's Hurricane, in whatever order preferred. Against a proper team with good gap-closing utility you may generally want to build RoA first.

Runes and masteries: Click on this link that takes you to my little cute EUW account meant for unranked play: http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/27809752#masteries

Varus pages are Flashlight and Phantom Archer.

Good luck :)