Talk:Varus/@comment-25325968-20150902210036/@comment-1920550-20150903020035

Most ADC casters are more reliant on spells than on AA's. That's why they are in a weaker state in the season 5 meta with the return of tank champions. Varus can build common ADC builds (IE/PD/LW, etc) and deal alot of damage because of his naturally high attack speed, above average range and ability to spell weave due to his W. Lategame Varus damage as an ADC is nothing to sneeze at.

Varus's issue is that he has alot of hidden power spread in his kit in small amounts which makes it hard to balance him without breaking him and he had no defined niche until people started using him as a mid laner. It's a similar phenomenon to when people started playing Ezreal mid with Muramana and Trinity Force and he started to work as a flex pick. Thing is he needs alot of mana to spell cast and his AD scalings are massive so a Jayce style penetration/blue build is more effective as he spikes earlier and harder but his play style goes from ADC to long range AD poke mage...hell he's better at it than Jayce is and that is Jayce's specialty.