Talk:Varus/@comment-108.89.163.0-20120509185031/@comment-68.98.9.242-20120510045704

I think most people just look at his blight stacks and assume that they are actually dealing 15% of your max hp every 3 attacks, mr/cooldowns prevent that. People also seem to have forgotten that kogmaw does 6% of your max hp per auto attack...

I've been playing Varus and he's fun, I think people just look at his skills and expect perfect scenarios to arise to meet them, like your team getting a kill in a fight instantly proccing your passive while Varus perfectly sets off his ability rotations proccing triple blight stacks every three auto attacks with the entire enemy team caught in his ult. Which, while it could happen, isn't really realistic in a fight between two equally skilled teams. He needs his abilities for their utility as well, use e to try and stop someone from escaping/get a bruiser off of you, same with ult, q might be on cooldown from poking prior to the fight, also can't actually charge up q mid fight as it lowers your dps.

He definitly isn't top tier IMO <-- emphasis, as he lacks a consistant damage steroid, but he's OK as an AD.

Also as a side note, since I believe this really goes over peoples heads, 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.

TL:DR: HES OK, BLIGHT IS REDUCE BY MR ALOT SINCE YOU BUILD NO MPEN