Talk:Varus/@comment-25956640-20150116154511/@comment-26001789-20150203225014

Lack of movility is not such an issue for an ADC. His the actual way on HOW to apply his damage that makes him bad. Graves can apply a lot of damage in a few seconds but if you do that, you only have so much to do in a teamfight before they focus you and then you get killed. Sivir doesn't really counter him THAT hard, since he has good range and you can always bait her shield(it's a 2v2 lane, remember).

It's the fact that you have to level W. You can choose to not max W and do pitiful damage by weaving spells or max Q and see how your mana pool gets burnt out while having a piercing skill that makes it really hard to poke or max E and actually do damage but also not really contributing much damage to a teamfight because you forgoe Q maxing. You always end up weaker in some areas in the midgame because you need a particular skill to level up in lane.