User blog comment:M.Davidz/Talking About Varus and His Current Status ( Rework )/@comment-1330314-20141121131739

From what I'm seeing, your changes are basically just a number buff to Varus's Q, and a change to his W passive scaling that gives him far more on-hit damage as AD Varus, and gets almost completely rid of AP Varus. I disagree with these changes because they don't address Varus's weakness at all, and just give him power in places he doesn't need. Piercing Arrow already deals massive, yet safe, poke damage in lane, and is only limited by its mana cost. Decreasing its cost would just lead to a more oppressive laning pattern, which Varus skirts around already (particularly when ahead), even with you slightly reducing his full-charge scaling. Your change to Blighted Quiver puts emphasis on Varus's on-hit damage when his focus should be on detonating Blight stacks with his spells.

While I agree that Varus isn't the most popular marksman around, he's far from weak. He just doesn't do well against dive comps and hyper-mobile melee champions, both of which have, until now at least, been extremely popular. Perhaps the upcoming changes to the meta might address that, but if you really do want to make Varus stronger in the current meta, I suggest you remove the Grievous Wounds from his E, and instead give him a much better slow (or perhaps turn the GW into a silence, a la ).