Talk:Varus/@comment-5015210-20121221095403/@comment-4916873-20121226094456

@   TNickxx (above)

AP Varus == Hybrid Varus

This actually is true for almost every champion class, except for what AP Varus is and for what AD carries were in S2 (and still applies partially to AD carries in S3).

On bruisers, tanks, supports, mages etc. there are a wide scala of items that can be built. Tanks, supports and bruisers simply have totally different items they can choose from, while mages have a wide array of items that both give ability power and other stats. This allows these classes to build items countering the enemy team composition.

On AD-carries and AP Varus, there is one major issue here, and that's the huge stacking effect, or enhancing effect items have on eachother. These carries deal so much damage later in the game because every item strengthens the other items: You build AD / CRIT / AP in combination with AS to heavily increase your damage. This means that if you take one of those DPS enhancing items out and replace them with a passive DPS item (such as BOTRK), your effectiveness will drop. BOTRK does not make use of crit chance for AD carries and does not put out a favourable school of damage and not the preferred type of damage for AP Varus (physical % damage).

Same story with Wit's End. Only has AS to do the job. On-hit passive is totally passive when it comes to item interaction.

Taking BOTRK and Wit's End on AP Varus may well half your lategame DPS. Don't do it.