Talk:Varus/@comment-24558666-20140319093011/@comment-6301771-20140331225652

Entertainingly, AP Varus is the much more DPS focused build over AD Varus, which focuses primarily on long range seiging with his Q. AP Varus absolutely needs Nashor's Tooth: Beyond that, adapt to what's thrown at you. Lots of high health targets? Max AP with Rabadons or DFG (which absolutely brutalizes people). Enemies building MR against you? You'll almost always be in range for Abyssal Scepter, Wit's End has insane synergy, and obviously Void Staff is always an option. Late game, a Runaan's allows you to build Blight on over half of the enemy team at once, but I'd advise against rushing it as you need AP for your on-hit damage to be terribly valuable. However, remember that Varus always autoattacks before using his abilities, so Lich Bane isn't terribly valuable on him. Focus on as much up-front on-hit damage as you can, then use your Blight stacks to obliderate high health targets who you couldn't otherwise burn through like Chogath or Mundo.

Also, remember, your ult has a 100% AP scaling and also applies his Blight procs at nearly 1100 range. If someone gets away from you, a clutch shot will not only snare them but might outright kill them. Of course, if they're dead the corruption can't spread to your opponents, and the tendrils reaching people detonates Blight as well, so use your ult wisely. It's a highly versatile tool.