Talk:Varus/@comment-26808509-20180408205946/@comment-25075290-20180412071345

I don't really think his poke build could come back:

Overall though it will for sure bring back at least a portion of the poke build's feel. Personally what I found the most satisfying was the ability to execute low health enemies from a distance without having to apply W stacks.
 * Scaling on missing health means it doesn't do a lot for poke, especially when  and exist.
 * Missing health damage goes up with ranks in W, not in Q.
 * It's magic damage, so that means that the lethality and armor penetration the poke build used wouldn't be of any help - this could be useful vs high armor targets, but then we return to point 1.
 * W is on a 40 seconds cooldown.

On this subject I like that this buff along with Guinsoo is merging the 3 Varus gameplays that were previously played separately - the high AD, Q reliant poke build with Lethality items; the all-in, E reliant AS build with BotRK; and the tank-bursting, W reliant AP build with Nashor's Tooth. It almost makes me feel like, and  are actually fusing together also from a gameplay perspective. I mean it's too cool, and genial if really intended.

Granted that Lethality is likely not worth it and there's still some confusion on what items to choose (besides between ,,  and  with some people preferring the first two, others preferring the latter two, and some even mixing the two groups.