Talk:Varus/@comment-24496127-20160610161919/@comment-24496127-20160615165622

I've been forgoing guinsoos lately in lieu of a Nashors>Rabadons>Void build. It creates a much smoother transition at the cost of pure dps later game. Topping the build off with a gunblade then ruunaans or your pick of situational items gets you about 600 ap, decent sustain, nice attack speed, and some crit. I find the biggest weakness of AP varus is the absolute need to be in auto attack range once you blow your ultimate, so I try and build to minimize the time I auto attack.

If I had to give up any item for a guinsoos it would probably be runuaans honestly, theoretically it's a really good item, but in practice I often find myself going for a "kill the first thing that gets near you" kind of approach over the AoE instant kill. If I were to play with that actively being my goal I'd probably be better off playing Azir or Katarina.