Talk:Varus/@comment-8300569-20130418043832/@comment-7992038-20130418124807

My order is R-E-W-Q.

E is spammable since it has a flat mana cost and lowers in cooldown with each rank. not to mention it has higher full rank base damage than his Q and applies a much stronger slow when maxed

Maxing W second ensures a VERY powerful mid game harrass and killing potential with the help of your ult. you can chunk people very easily with minimal loss of resource.

I tend to max Q last as it has a punitive mana cost and actually scales pretty well in damage even when not leveled. It's two functions are to use it very quickly as a psuedo second auto attack during a trade to pop blight or to snipe a runner that has blight stacks on them.

When i first started playing Varus as a wee noob (he was my second champion i ever bought) I maxed my Q first which resulted in a very strong poke......and and being out of mana lol. Since Q's cooldown shortens so much each rank it becomes more tempting to spam it which isn't very efficient.

I eventually started maxing Q second. It was better in terms of early game mana issues but it still lacked a nice balance of reliable harass and trading ability. And i still went OOM pretty quickly after fights.

With maxing E and then W. you have a rather easy time chunking anyone who wanders too close to you when youre farming. When you're farming is when you are the most threatening to your opponent because of your passive. you can easily LH a creep and land one or two stacks on someone and land your E as soon as they get cocky, then watch them slowly back off after arrows to the face. >:D

Sorry for the wall of text. It's just that Varus is my husbandu :3