Talk:Varus/@comment-8957269-20130618013508/@comment-15280970-20130820035215

NO, hybrid builds on anything besides Jax and kayle are garbage. Its a mathematical reason: Adc's DPS stats stack multiplicatively.

Fast example (DONT read if u now why)--

Caitlyn (a caitlyn with no pasive nor crit chance) has bought 5 Bloodthirsters (no boots) so she hits for 600 but with 1.0 AS(meaning she does some 600 DPS), should she build another bloodthirster or a phantom dancer?. Well thats 700 DPS vs 600*1,5 AS =  900 DPS. Ohh but she crits 30% of time so its 900 DPS* .7 + 900* .3 * 2(crit dmg)= 1170 DPS. Then she decides to sell her BT and buy an IE. Now she only has 570 AD but she hits for: 570*1,5 AS = 855, now with crit: 855*.45 + 855*.55*2.5= 1560.375 DPS. Now she tries to kill Garen but she finds she only does 780 DPS to him. Why? garen has 100 armor so he ignores 50% of the dmg. Then caitlyn sells another BT and buys a LW. Now she only has 510 AD, but ignores 35% of garens armor, meaning she now hits him for:

510*1.5 AS=765DPS, with crit: 765*.45 * 765.*.55*2.5=1396.125 DPS, with ARMOR reductions: 1396.125*(1/1+65)= 846.137 DPS. Sure, if garen buys a Thornmail, cait will now do some 607 DPS.

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This means the basic dps of an ADC depends on these stats:(AD- AS- CRIT CHANCE-ARMPEN (IMPORTANT)). While an APC dps depends on these:(AP- CDR- MAGIC PEN and a lot of other stuff). Now as ur build does not count on MAGIC PEN OR ARMOR PEN you will be barely doing any damage to the other team.

As varus ap part is some "anti tank" you will be attacking some beefy 150+ MR (and if they see a varus going Hyb, sure they got 200+ MR (those wit ends proc dont really do much)) TANK, meaning they will ignore 60%+ of AP damage and other 66%+ of you ad's DMG.

Finally as only having 20 CDR ur 3 proccin skills will have 72, 8 and 6.4 secs CD, in other words, you will only spam your full blight 3 times then with 1.2 secs (lets say 1.5) then you will have to wait like 4 secs of nothing to proc again and then other 4 secs again meaning extra AS is not useful for AP part.

So my advice: Go adc varus, ap varus is just a weak ap kog maw.