Talk:Varus/@comment-14081808-20140709005055/@comment-8919271-20140709055821

I'd rather have Barrier than Ghost.

Doran's Blade start is dead since they nerfed flat HP gain, Crystaline + 3 pots is always better now.

You shouldn't be wasting gold on Vamp Scepter or BF Sword if you intend to go AP, It will delay your power spikes by far and make your endgame worse if you're gonna keep BT til end of the game. BotRK is bad since you have no armor pen and no real AD to make use of the lifesteal. Also, big no to AS boots. I'd rather have either 15 more mpen or more armor/mr than puny AS, you don't even need it that much besides Nashor's.

Abyssal is just plain stupid idea, waste of a slot more often then not.

Runaan's is unusable against competent teams while Spirit Visage is again, just a dumb choice. If you'll ever be in need of high MR item go for banshee's, why would you go for SV? I just can't understand. Also, really, no amount of MR is going to save you lategame from any burst caster, and building 2 purely defensive items would constantly keep your damage down in such a way you'd prolly need one more full detonation to kill someone.

As for other situational items; Twin Shadows is meh since it doesn't give MR, Gunblade is painfully bad on Varus and you should never build it unless you're AD and want to heal from Q and E for whatever reason.

I dunno why'd you try to build him with any AD items, it really is not needed. If you can't play AP Varus with his own damage then why bother? You don't need Q for it's own damage, you don't need E for it's own damage, and if, god forbid, you're delaying maxing W because you want the Q burst for whatever godly reason, just give up playing AP Varus altogether.

Not to mention building AD limits your rune choices; either you want to make use of this AD and go for either AD or Arpen/hybrid pen runes > making your lategame worse because you lack proper magic damage oriented runes, or you go for magic damage runes (mpen, ap/lvl) and make your AD even more useless early on, thus wasting effectively even more gold on that BT.

Don't try combining two playstyles, just pick one and stick with it. Either play poke-y AD Varus or bursty AP Varus and learn their limitations. Trying to mix them is just... ugh...

On a side note, when you're going for nashor's, Codex has to be build before Stinger, always. It'll be build somewhere early in the game (just after rushing Rabadon's, usually) and you'll need that AP more than AS early on.