Talk:Varus/@comment-24558666-20140319093011

Guys, how do you actually build AP Varus? I am quite interested, because runaan seems like good pick on him(fast attacks -> faster stacks, making his Blighted into AoE), however it also feels like big AP sacrifice. Quiver detonation damage, 2 hp per 100 AP and 100MHp per detonation stack, can be seen as 2%AP per 100 MHp, so 3 stack detonation usualy has 120%AP(vs 2000 hp squishies) to 240% AP(vs 4000 HP hypertanks) ratio, which is lot to just sacrifice one AP item for runaan.

Just to make it clear, 15% of Mhp as magic dmg means aditional 300-600 dmg(depending on enemy, making 3 blight stacks into ult deal 650 + 220% AP to 950 + 340% AP.

(Or counting in damage from autoattacks, that do 30% AP(5% from Arcane blade), 45% with nashor, your 3 shot into ult get 123 + (135%AP), rising it even higher to 773 + 355%AP to unbelieveable 1073 + 475%AP. That makes it clear getting them ap items is quite necessary, as raw damage is quite low compared to ap scaling)

Nashor tooth with high CDR, aspd, and aditional AP scaling to autoattacks is necessary item, so is rabadon. But what to do next?