Talk:Varus/@comment-84.3.163.30-20120509180023/@comment-68.98.9.242-20120510050322

I posted this above so i'll copy and paste it.

you won't build any mpen, you won't have mpen runes/masteries. His blight IS REALLY LOWERED BY ANY MR, 30 base mr is 23% damage reduction, average brawler has defense masteries + mr/lvl runes + mercs. That = ~48% dmg reduction for the average bruiser. It's alot of damage reduction.

That being said I don't believe it'd be very good.He isn't innately tanky so you'd need to spend alot to get your defenses, he has no strong AD steroid so you still need to build damage to do damage. And his blight does less than people think. Carries won't have alot of hp to make the dmg useful (best case you deal 11.55% of a carries 2k hp, which is....231dmg) versus a bruiser your doing 7% after 3 auto attacks, and thats under a good scenario where the only mr they build is mercs and you get a good rotation, thats about the same as madreds, except your required to hit abilities to deal the dmg. He does have his ult going for him as it doesn't require items but thats about it. I feel like you might as well just play ww, with madreds, you'd probably do more damage than brawler Varus and have a better lane if you went top. (Anyone with a gap closer would wreck no sustain, no tankiness, no hard cc (until ult) Varus)