Talk:Varus/@comment-25532677-20151018180233/@comment-1666421-20151019094857

Right, but we don't buy Gunblade for the spell vamp (if we wanted SV on an AP champ, WotA would arguably be a much better buy). We buy it for all the other stats, and in particular the active. Varus has a middling range on his AAs, so he needs all the help he can get to kite, and neither Mallet nor Rylai's are viable options for him - Mallet because it overspends on stats he can't use, and Rylai's because his spells aren't well suited for it (and because he wants to AA first and then cast, not the other way around).

Varus, when you build attack speed, can easily proc the Gunblade active's CDR.