User blog comment:The5lacker/Varus is not a normal AD carry/@comment-4124337-20130618230623

Varus is not as good as MANY other adc's purely because his kit does not focus on high auto attack damage, instead it relies on fiddly weird kit quirks that do some extra damage but if he was 2.5 attack speed (normal due to his passive), the animation removes any extra damage the ability would do and replaces it with a cast time where you waste 1 second doing dumb crap that an auto attack could have crit for 1000.

The 2 parts of varus' kit that turns this around are his passive and his ultimate. His ult is godly for an adc, the cc duration is unmatched by VERY few champions but the passive is even better. Varus with lifesteal can melt an entire team thanks to his passive and due to attack speed nerfs league had, varus can still reach full attack speed without sacrificing damage items unlike EVERY other adc (except tristana who wastes an ability slot to get attack speed), best passive ever!