Talk:Varus/@comment-87.180.48.154-20130101145235

So, AP Varus. I kinda prefer going bot with him in place of an AD Carry because I think he's just too easily harrassed at mid lane by most common picks and, together with an aggressive support, it's not to hard to score kills against most common bot lanes.

Masteries 21 or 22 in offense, picking attack speed in the first tier - though that's just me being OCD about having a cooldown reduction percentage that isn't dividable by 5 - and then the usual AP Carry affair together with Spellblade. Rest depends, though reduced Flash cooldown and reduced summoner spell cooldown in the utility tree always seems to work out. Runes are attack damage reds and quints for easier farming, yellow flat armor and blue scaling magic resistance.

Starting boots and 3 pots, then turning boots into Berzerker's and rushing a Malady as soon as possible because you really need that extra scaling for your auto attacks. Following that is Nashor's for more ASPD, more AP and CDR which you'll really need for later fights. Depending on how early teamfights start, I either rush a Runaan's or pick up other stuff in the meantime, like Rabadon's or Zhonya's. Given the changes they made to Lich Bane, I might consider that a situational item, though I haven't gotten around actually building it yet. Rageblade looks to me like that something that will only be worth building if his W procced spell vamp in any way, and even then it's questionable whether or not you can actually make use out of the restored health given that AP Varus blows up more easily than all the explosives that Ziggs keeps throwing aorund.