Talk:Varus/@comment-4916873-20121006134506/@comment-4900160-20121013204910

I eventually tried it. From my limited experience, AP Varus is fucking overpowered by late game. The amount of damage you can dish out is absolutely retarded, and you still have some CC. But this is balanced by a relatively weak early and average mid game. I would say that:

+ Insane burst and sustained damage by late game, absolutely retarded.

+ Very good CC

+ Ultimate is broken as hell when playing AP, provided you stacked Three stacks of blight on the target. I mean it : completely broken.

+ Q still does a decent amount of damage anyway, the difference is really not that bif compared to AD.

- Last-hit reliant, bad farmer

- Very strong in 1v1, not that powerful versus several targets, unless you can root them all.

- AP does not give you an escape mechanism, which Varus still lacks.

- No lifesteal when playing AP, and spellvamp is completely useless on him.

- AS reliant.

Seriously, dat W becomes so fucking strong when playing AP. Let's say you have 250 AP (which is not that hard to reach at all) and you are level 16:

You land three stacks of blight and then your ultimate on the target. Even if you ignore the damage of the three autoattacks and their own AP ratio, you are going to deal 600+30% of max hp of the target in ONE spell. That's EASILY a thousand damage. Plus a two second root. And your ult can hit all five members of the enemy team. And it giives you time to land 3 more stack and a Q for another 30% damage.

Seriously, just try it, it's so fucking hilarious to deal so much burst damage.